Cameron Woodhead
Cameron Woodhead is an Australian critic and arts journalist. He is a regular book columnist and senior theatre critic for the Age, and his reviews and essays on literary and performing arts have appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including the Age, Australian, Monthly, Australian Financial Review, Australian Book Review, Meanjin, and Crikey. He also blogs at cameronwoodhead.com.
All essays by Cameron Woodhead
The mind has mountains: A life of David Foster Wallace
What I desperately wanted from this book, and what Wallace deserved, was a biography that was itself a significant work of literature. Max is no slouch as a reporter … but his prose doesn’t have the percipience and complexity over the long haul to fully dramatise the unresolvable questions that it raises, and he tends to be wiped off the page whenever he quotes from his subject.