New on the SRB:
James Leyon Vincent and Morton Patrick Allingtonon Grace Chan and Joan Fleming Catriona Menzies-Pikeon Gina Rushton Dan Dixonon the short story Eda Gunaydinon learning to drive Luke Vitaleon the Bankstown Biennale Gurmeet Kauron Sophie Cunningham Imogen Deweyon Simon Tedeschi Merve Emre Jessica Whiteon Kate Holden James Leyon Vincent and Morton Patrick Allingtonon Grace Chan and Joan Fleming Catriona Menzies-Pikeon Gina Rushton Dan Dixonon the short story Eda Gunaydinon learning to drive Luke Vitaleon the Bankstown Biennale Gurmeet Kauron Sophie Cunningham Imogen Deweyon Simon Tedeschi Merve Emre Jessica Whiteon Kate Holden
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From the SRB archives:
Julian Novitzon Hilary Mantel Yumna Kassabon Parramatta Dženana Vucicon Saša Stanišić Luke Carmanon the life of a ‘car-man’ Ellen O’Brienon Louise Milligan Julian Novitzon Hilary Mantel Yumna Kassabon Parramatta Dženana Vucicon Saša Stanišić Luke Carmanon the life of a ‘car-man’ Ellen O’Brienon Louise Milligan
Dangerously Good Company
Living at the centre of European politics for ten years, on the knife edge between the medieval and early modern, Thomas Cromwell may have been able to envision a better age to come. A reader of this bruising, brilliant sequence of novels might now be a little more sceptical. The arc of the moral universe is long in Mantel’s trilogy, but it bends more towards irony than justice.
Now and Then
Stanišić’s books play with time as much as they play with fantasy, which are more entangled than one might suspect, but perhaps understandably so for someone like Stanišić, or someone like me, that is to say: children born into Yugoslavia and made refugees by the genocidal war that followed its fracturing.
A Glovebox of One’s Own
By some cosmic sophomoric prank, despite my desire to become what some people call a writer, my true occupation on this earth has always been and always will be captured by the construction ‘a car-man is a car-man is a car-man is a car-man’, and if that formulation makes your skin crawl, try telling me about it, since the only escape from this fate of mine is the one Henry Lawson recommended above, and that salvation is forbidden by religion.