NewSouth Publishing

Jun 12, 2024 | unsw.press | Brigitta Olubas |Susan Wyndham

Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards and telegrams, and made occasional phone calls between Harrower’s home in Sydney and Hazzard’s apartments in New York, Naples and Capri. The two women wrote to each other of their daily lives, of impediments to writing, their reading, politics and world affairs, and in Hazzard’s case, her travels.

May 28, 2024 | unsw.press | Brigitta Olubas |Susan Wyndham

NewSouth has acquired a new authoritative biography of Australian novelist Elizabeth Harrower by writer, journalist and 2024 National Library of Australia Fellow Susan Wyndham. Due to publish in mid-2025, the new biography of Harrower provides insight into the powerful and ever-relevant work of this literary luminary. It explores her vast and influential friendship circle and how her life and relationships both shaped her work and led to her withdrawal from it.

Feb 24, 2024 | unsw.press | Cher Tan

There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise — something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we’d arrive at it if we kick around long enough. Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you aren’t online. About knowing a language four times. About living on the interstices. About thievery. About wanting. About the hyperreal. About weirdness.

Aug 16, 2023 | unsw.press | Megan Davis |George Williams

Australians will soon be faced with an important choice. Will they vote Yes to change our nation’s Constitution to introduce an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice? Or will they vote No and bring the recognition process to a halt and, along with it, the aspirations of an overwhelming number of Australia’s first peoples? The stakes could not be higher. In late 2023 Australians will vote in a referendum on enshrining an Indigenous Voice to parliament and government in the Constitution.

May 17, 2023 | unsw.press | Liam Mannix