Matthew Lamb

Matthew Lamb

Matthew Lamb is founding editor of Review of Australian Fiction, and former editor of Island magazine. He is currently writing a biography of Frank Moorhouse.

All essays by Matthew Lamb

Review: Matthew Lambon The Drover's Wife
  • The Drover's Wife edited by Frank Moorhouse
  • The Drover's Wives by Ryan O'Neill
  • The Drover’s Wife by Frank Moorhouse (editor) Knopf Australia
    288pp
    $34.99 AU
    Published October, 2017
    ISBN 978014378482
  • The Drover’s Wives by Ryan O’Neill Brio
    256pp
    $26.99 AU
    Published July, 2018
    ISBN 9781925589290

One More Time

It began on July 23 1892, when a 25-year old Henry Lawson published a short story called ‘The Drover’s Wife’…
Aug. 2018 • •
Review: Matthew Lambon Albert Camus
  • Algerian Chronicles by Albert Camus
  • Brave Genius by Sean B. Carroll cover
  • A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning
  • Algerian Chronicles by Albert Camus (translated by Arthur Goldhammer) Belknap Press
    240pp
    $29.95 AU
    Published May, 2013
    ISBN 9780674072589
  • Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize by Sean B. Carroll Crown
    576pp
    $50.00 AU
    Published September, 2013
    ISBN 9780307952332
  • A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning by Robert Zaretsky Belknap Press
    240pp
    $34.95 AU
    Published November, 2013
    ISBN 9780674724761

Philosophy? Absurd! Algerian Chronicles by Albert Camus

Albert Camus’ reputation, for good or bad, has been built upon cliché. This has resulted, for generations of readers, in a curious blindness when approaching his books. It seems simpler to repeat the cliché than to consent to what is actually spelled out on the page.

Feb. 2014 • • • •