Journalist Masha Gessen has written a damning biography of Vladimir Putin, leader of her native Russia, where she currently resides. In it, she reveals him as a corrupt dictator and charts his unlikely rise to power, as well as the dark deeds of his regime. Speaking in a Wheeler Centre event, she also talked about the new Russian revolution and predicted that Putin's reign will not last much longer., Neil Gaiman recently addressed the students at Philadelphia's University of the Arts, where he gifted them a treasure trove of advice about a career in the arts, from accepting failure and embracing uncertainty to secret freelancer business. But his most important advice? Make good art, no matter what., Do you judge a book by its cover? No, neither do we ... but we do appreciate a good-looking book cover nonetheless. We celebrate the winners of this year's Australian Publishers' Association Design Awards. With pictures, of course. and Jeanette Winterson concluded our Ten series with an electrifying talk that covered memoir (she prefers the term 'cover version'), identity, the consolations of literature, and being the hero of your own life.
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Judging a book by its cover, A kind of 'cloud atlas', abstraction from the Big Apple and Tim Minchin portrait wins Archibald prize
Tim Flannery, curator of the 2010 Deakin Lecture Series, at Copenhagen. and up close encounters with Seamus Heaney
Singing the praises of the VPLAs... es. and Listen to audio of 'Is Australian Democracy Broken?'
Huckleberry Finn as "America without its make-up on", Paris Review promo video that makes dessert of the literary journal, Dirk Gently Makes the Small Screen and Classic video of the crossword inker
