Australian literature

The record store clerk, like the pop critic, was once a messenger: have you heard this? Have you heard this? You have to hear this.

In Luke Carman’s 2013 debut, An Elegant Young Man, the Kerouac-revering narrator from Western Sydney had his wayward literary influences corrected…

Essays and reviews written by First Nations peoples are the models and the tools and the terms settler readers/scholars need to consider in approaching First Nations works.

In contrasting ways, Sam Vincent’s memoir My Father and Other Animals and Rick Morton’s anthology Growing Up in Country Australia complicate clichéd notions of rural life.

Why has it taken me so long to write this review of The Most Important Job in the World? Whenever I…

These two speculative works offer visions of the future in which the earth is devastated. Each involves humans living disrupted, transformed lives – defying or redefining extinction, carrying on, muddling through.

I am looking for something to say about the short story as a category, something to distinguish it, and my mind alights on the word ‘fun’.

What Fugitive does is to enact the sensation that emerges when you play or listen to music: a tactile excitement, a kinaesthetic sense of the sacred

Gerald Murnane’s meticulously self-curated ‘Chronological Archive’ – as distinct from his ‘Literary Archive’ and ‘Antipodean Archive’, both of which he likewise compiled…

Skrzynecki writes as a storyteller who recalls nature, family, and friends, as well as time and place, with narratological detail.