Accessibility Tools

  • Content scaling 100%
  • Font size 100%
  • Line height 100%
  • Letter spacing 100%

In Brief

Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh

by •
August 2016, no. 383
Cassandra Atherton reviews 'Portable Curiosities' by Julie Koh

Julie Koh's first full-length short story collection, Portable Curiosities, is an electrifying satire on Anglo-Australian hegemony and the underbelly of the Australian Dream ...

... (read more)

Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers by Ryan O’Neill

by •
August 2016, no. 383
David Thomas Henry Wright reviews 'Their brilliant careers: The fantastic lives of sixteen extraordinary Australian writers' by Ryan O'Neill

In the acknowledgments of Their Brilliant Careers, the author gives thanks to Roberto Bolaño's Nazi Literature in the Americas (1996), which 'provides essential background ...

... (read more)

Avalanche: A love story by Julia Leigh

by •
August 2016, no. 383
Rose Lucas reviews 'Avalanche: A love story' by Julia Leigh

When snow falls, it blurs the line of sight. Sometimes it covers the world with a soft blanket, dampening everything else; sometimes it chills to the marrow ...

... (read more)

Things My Mother Taught Me by Claire Halliday

by •
June–July 2016, no. 382
Daniel Juckes reviews 'Things My Mother Taught Me' by Claire Halliday

Claire Halliday's Things My Mother Taught Me opens thus: 'History is a personal thing.' But in this book – a collection of interviews with famous Australians about ...

... (read more)

The Amazing Mrs. Livesey by Freda Marnie Nicholl

by •
June–July 2016, no. 382
Dina Ross reviews 'The Amazing Mrs. Livesey' by Freda Marnie Nicholl

Ethel Livesey was a piece of work. By the time she stood trial in 1946, she had already served several terms in prison. The serial fraudster had accumulated more than ...

... (read more)

One by Patrick Holland

by •
June–July 2016, no. 382
Dean Biron reviews 'One' by Patrick Holland

The work of Brisbane-based author Patrick Holland is reputedly influenced by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, whose Tabula Rasa cemented his standing ...

... (read more)

Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan

by •
June–July 2016, no. 382
Josephine Taylor reviews 'Our Tiny, Useless Hearts' by Toni Jordan

It is the morning after a husband's affair has been discovered, and the house is in chaos: the opening to Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1877) is deliberately evoked in Toni ...

... (read more)

William Yang: Stories of Love and Death by Helena Grehan and Edward Scheer

by •
May 2016, no. 381

William Yang is one of Australia's best-known and most prolific photographers. In William Yang: Stories of love and death, Helena Grehan and Edward Scheer interrogate the political and aesthetic themes running through this artist's output.

...

Places Women Make: Unearthing the Contribution of Women to Our Cities by Jane Jose

by •
May 2016, no. 381

In Places Women Make, Jane Jose writes that she is ‘not proving a theory about the skills of men versus those of women’, but celebrating ‘the places in cities we know women have given us’.

Jose moves with sometimes disorienting rapidity from place to place, from female lord mayor to colonial matron to feisty 1970s female activist. We learn that the female perspective is ...

Whisperings in the Blood: A Memoir by Shelley Davidow

by •
May 2016, no. 381

Shelley Davidow's multi-generational memoir begins in 1913 with her Jewish great-grandfather Jacob escaping the pogroms of tsarist Lithuania for the rigours of life in the American Midwest. The English language eludes Jacob, who struggles to make a decent living in his adopted country. Poverty contributes to his wife's untimely death. Jacob's son and daughter are co ...

Page 8 of 15