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Letters to Who? On Michelle Cahill

23.09.16

Paul Sharrad

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    September 2016

    Excavating St Peters

    28.09.16

    Vanessa Berry

    ‘This is a typical St Peters scene: unlovely, surreal, resistant to investigation.’

    Published on 27.09.16 in
    Post-Industrial, Holland Street, St Peters.
    Inexperience and other stories by Anthony Macris

    A Real Inexperience

    The strangeness of Macris’s stories are not derived from uncommon states...

    27.09.16

    Anthony Uhlmann

    Published on 09.07.13 in
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    The Hunted Months

    On Christina Stead’s The Little Hotel.

    23.09.16

    Lisa Gorton

    Published on 08.03.13 in
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    Crying Freedom

    Conservatives and libertarians: a happy marriage or heading for divorce?

    20.09.16

    Richard King

    Published on 06.08.13 in
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    Feral with vulnerability: Nelson, O’Shaughnessy and Mann

    Tame love and secure form on one hand, wildness, danger and formlessness on the other.

    16.09.16

    Felicity Plunkett

    Published on 14.02.13 in
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    A Terrible Beauty

    Terror and the French Revolution

    13.09.16

    Ali Alizadeh

    Published on 19.09.13 in
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    Maximalist Cosmos: An Interview with Stefano Ercolino

    Large works that will strain the hands.

    09.09.16

    Jeffrey Errington

    Published on 09.09.16 in
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    Georges Perec: ‘C’est l’Australie qui m’a foutu mal!’

    In 1981 Georges Perec visited Australia and attempted to write a book in 53 days.

    06.09.16

    Peter Salmon

    Published on 25.02.14 in

    Scenes from the Top End: Mary Anne Butler

    02.09.16

    Adelle Sefton-Rowston

    I had a lot of inspirations with Broken. Andrew Bovell’s When The Rain Stops Falling taught me that not only can you put anything on stage; you can leap eras and locations in a single sentence.

    Published on 16.08.16 in

    August 2016

    Illegitimate Son: On Patrick Modiano

    30.08.16

    James Ley

    There is a doomed quality to the relationships in Modiano’s fiction.

    Published on 19.03.13 in
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    Zero K: The Poetry of Alien Places

    In Zero K DeLillo brilliantly balances the wildly different scales of his subject matter...

    23.08.16

    Sam Dickson

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    Two Cultures (Again): Revisiting Leavis and Snow

    19.08.16

    Julian Meyrick

    Published on 16.08.16 in Features
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    Browsing the Aisles: A Foray into Speculative Fiction

    My research and reading confirmed what I’d suspected all along: most interesting texts don’t fall into easy categories.

    12.08.16

    Jane Sloan

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    Indirect Speech: Contemporary Writing in Cambodia

    09.08.16

    Robert Horne

    Oppression and control of writers and literature has been a standard measure of social and cultural life in Cambodia for a thousand years at least, but since the last elections in 2013 there has been the appearance of change.

    Published on 19.07.16 in
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    Discomfort Enacted In Writing

    What we are meant to think about are words, about the capacity of language to do other than what it seems to be doing.

    05.08.16

    Joy Wallace

    Published on 05.08.16 in
    Brett Whiteley: Art, life and the other thing

    Art, Life and the Other Thing

    A parallel narrative to the rise of Whiteley as an artist is the detailed account of his sexual promiscuity and his growing dependence on alcohol and drugs.

    02.08.16

    Sasha Grishin

    Published on 02.08.16 in

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    July 2016

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    How To Mediate A Massacre?

    'Twenty years have passed since Martin Bryant shot 35 people dead in a single afternoon in Port Arthur, Tasmania. It remains Australia’s worst recorded shooting spree by a single gunman. The qualifiers are necessary because we don’t know everything that happened in Tasmania, let alone the rest of the country, during the long nineteenth century, when white settlers were busy taking the country by force from its original inhabitants. Despite all the violence of Australian history - despite the sedimented layers of brutality at Port Arthur alone, which was once at the heart of our founding carceral nightmare - Bryant’s murders are fringed with a sense of exception. In a country that has managed to forget so much, this is one thing we just can’t shake. Perhaps it has something to do with the way it was mediated. ‘The Port Arthur massacre haunts Australia’ is the way Sonya Voumard aptly puts it in her book, The Media and the Massacre - Port Arthur 1996-2016. For many, the killer’s very name summons up one of the few images of his face that were relentlessly circulated in all forms of media at the time, images that those who were sentient at the time will never be able to quite forget. He is forever blonde, scruffy, blankly staring.'

    29.07.16

    Jason Wilson

    Published on 29.07.16 in
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    Something Beyond The Natural

    Precisely how we are to understand the room and its relationship to Shelley’s consciousness is never clear, and becomes less clear with each new encounter between the world within and outside its walls.

    22.07.16

    Published on 22.07.16 in Fiction, Australian Fiction
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    Beyond an Angel At My Table: Contemporary Writing in Aotearoa

    19.07.16

    Andrew Paul Wood

    Published on 06.05.14 in Features
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    To Know Is To Live: On Strehlow’s Journey to Horseshoe Bend

    The most inspired writing in Journey to Horseshoe Bend is in Strehlow’s narratives of ‘storied land’. Many ancestral stories relating to animals — wallabies, emus, fish, birds, snakes — are lucidly and meaningfully given.

    13.07.16

    Paul Galimond

    Published on 07.08.15 in
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    The Artist as Revolutionary: Remembering Robeson

    In this excellent new book, [Horne] identifies Robeson as a neglected precursor to the modern Civil Rights movement.

    08.07.16

    Jeff Sparrow

    Published on 16.09.14 in
    Towards the Equator by Alex Skovron

    Alex Skovron: A Sweeping Range

    Skovron’s work falls across a number of complex cultural modes. While he has many important things to say about the migrant experience, he also has much to say about more general issues relating to human ontology, as well as to his experience of living in Sydney and Melbourne.

    06.07.16

    Judith Beveridge

    Published on 24.06.16 in
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