Frank Moorhouse Reading Room

From Vietnam to Gaza, Eda Gunaydin considers the recent and historical convergences of mass politics and anti-war sentiment, examining the role of artists at moments of political mobilisation as well as their vulnerability to state surveillance.

Reading across several decades of Frank Moorhouse’s essays on the writing life, author Gina Ward maps Moorhouse’s changing sense of vocation, and the ruinous effects of rising economic precarity on the writers of his generation.

Introducing the Frank Moorhouse Reading Room project, author and critic Tegan Bennett Daylight reflects on the generational shifts that have shaped Australian writing as well as the creative and industrial legacies of Frank Moorhouse.