Letters
Darling Mother, Darling Son: The letters of Leslie Walford and Dora Byrne, 1929–1972 edited by Edith M. Ziegler
Dashing for the Post: The letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor edited by Adam Sisman
Dear Editor, It was disappointing to read Stephen Mills’s commentary on my recent Making Modern Australia: The Whitlam government’s 21st century agenda (ABR, 11/17). From a collection of eleven chapters Mills refers to just four and fails to mention the remaining seven. In doing so, he renounces any realistic attempt at a ...
... (read more)Christina Stead: A web of friendship, selected letters (1928–1973) edited by Ron Geering
Politics is personal in the United States, far more private than it appears from outside. When political allegiance becomes tied to character, revealing one reveals the other ...
... (read more)Passions of a Mighty Heart: Selected letters of G.W.L. Marshall-Hall edited by Suzanne Robinson
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 1926–1929 edited by edited by Rena Sanderson, Sandra Spanier, and Robert W. Trogdon
My Dear BB: The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925–1959 edited by Robert Cumming
Behind Omonoia Square I check into a cheap hotel, one that mainly sleeps prostitutes and their customers. The receptionist is worn – nicotine fingers, few teeth, sharp cheekbones, gaunt features. His flesh is as green as old tattoos. Leading me down the dank hallway, he lifts up his G-Star Raw T-shirt and scratches a large tattoo of a skull heaving angels from its ...
‘We are the children of death and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life.’
Sadeq Hedayat
Smoke fills the car as my friend Amir and I share a cigarette and hurtle down the highway from Tehran airport to the north of the gargantuan metropolis. Thin crowns of sunlight emerge from the shadowy horizon. The urban sprawl starts to ...