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Memoir

Press Escape by Shaun Carney

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December 2016, no. 387
Michael McGirr reviews 'Press Escape' by Shaun Carney

You can judge this memoir by its poignant cover. It shows a picture of the author taken in 1966 when he was eight or nine years old. Behind him is one of the accessories of the baby boomer period, a Volkswagen. The Beetle is parked near long grass, redolent of Melbourne’s outer suburban fringe, an area that features prominently in Shaun Carney’s account of his o ...

The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton

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December 2016, no. 387
Peter Craven reviews 'The Boy Behind the Curtain' by Tim Winton

Everybody thinks they know about Tim Winton: the working-class hero from the West; the whale of a man who’s been writing since he was a boy; the master of one of ...

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Bob Ellis: In his own words by Bob Ellis, compiled by Anne Brooksbank

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November 2016, no. 386
Jan McGuinness reviews 'Bob Ellis: In his own words' by Bob Ellis, compiled by Anne Brooksbank

In his introduction to Bob Ellis: In his own words, Bob’s son Jack says of his father that ‘writing was his reason for being ... and through his writing he saw himself in conversation ...

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Freeing Peter: How an ordinary family fought an extraordinary battle by Juris Greste et al.

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November 2016, no. 386
Kate Ryan reviews 'Freeing Peter: How an ordinary family fought an extraordinary battle' by Juris Greste et al.

It seems appropriate in an account of justice thwarted that the name of journalist Peter Greste’s father is Juris. In 2013, Greste, an Al Jazeera journalist, was accused with colleagues ...

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Saved to Remember: Raoul Wallenberg, Budapest 1944 and after by Frank Vajda

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October 2016, no. 385
Agnes Nieuwenhuizen reviews 'Saved to Remember: Raoul Wallenberg, Budapest 1944 and after' by Frank Vajda

'Is the Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg's Death Finally Solved?' asked a headline in Israel's Haaretz newspaper, on 6 August 2016. The New York Times published a similar story ...

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The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke & Carrying the World by Maxine Beneba Clarke

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October 2016, no. 385
Catherine Noske reviews 'The Hate Race: A memoir' and 'Carrying the World' by Maxine Beneba Clarke

Across two new titles, Maxine Beneba Clarke offers an unflinching portrayal of the impact of racism, and transcends form in turning a lens on Australian society ...

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Lonely City: Adventures in the art of being alone by Olivia Laing

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September 2016, no. 384
Alexandra Mathew reviews 'Lonely City: Adventures in the art of being alone' by Olivia Laing

In her mid-thirties, British writer and critic Olivia Laing moved to New York City to live with her partner. When the relationship ended, Laing found herself alone ...

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Farewell to the Father by Tim Elliott

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September 2016, no. 384
Kári Gíslason reviews 'Farewell to the Father' by Tim Elliott

One of the claims that is sometimes made for the memoir form is that it gives the author a degree of release from the past. Getting it down on paper can also be about ...

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Position Doubtful: Mapping landscapes and memories by Kim Mahood

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September 2016, no. 384
Michael Winkler reviews 'Position Doubtful: Mapping landscapes and memories' by Kim Mahood

At the bottom of one of Kim Mahood's desert watercolours, she scrawled, 'In the gap between two ways of seeing, the risk is that you see nothing clearly.' A risk for ...

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Growing Wild by Michael Wilding

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August 2016, no. 383
Brian Matthews reviews 'Growing Wild' by Michael Wilding

Undaunted by Joseph Furphy's autodidactic complexities and indulgences, A.D. Hope proposed in his 1974 collection,  Native Companions, Essays and Comments on ...

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