Featured Australian literature essays
To Be Frank
What are the stakes of literary biography? Sam Twyford-Moore poses this question in reviewing two recent books on Frank Moorhouse, addressing issues ranging from the ethics of disclosure to the intersections between biography and cultural history.
Australian literature
To Be Frank
What are the stakes of literary biography? Sam Twyford-Moore poses this question in reviewing two recent books on Frank Moorhouse, addressing issues ranging from the ethics of disclosure to the intersections between biography and cultural history.
A Lotus with a Long Stalk
Luke Carman reviews Sanya Rushdi’s Hospital, a translated novel depicting a linguist’s experience of psychosis and institutionalisation. As Carman argues, the novel’s distinctively ‘minimalist’ style underlines ‘a contingent relationship to sanity’ to which we are all vulnerable.
Getting Shirty
Lucy Van reviews π.O.’s The Tour, a pugnacious verse chronicle of a poetic caper around the United States. From his dirty t-shirt to his dissatisfactions with American food, π.O.’s emblematic gestures of refusal characterise a volume that, for Van, exposes ‘the orders and disorders of our national poetry’.