Australian Book Review is pleased to contribute to Reading Australia, a visionary initiative of Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Reading Australia will publish online resources for the teaching and study of Australian literature in Australian schools and universities. Distinguished Australian scholars and commentators will appraise 200 major Australian books in stylish, accessible 2000-word essays, all intended to heighten our appreciation of Australian writing.
ABR will commission and publish some of these essays (and refers our readers to the Reading Australia website for the others). Some of the ABR essays will appear in print. All of them will appear on our website. Students and general readers will learn much from these succinct essays.
Reading Australia essays commissioned and published by Australian Book Review:
Kerryn Goldsworthy on Jessica Anderson's Tirra Lirra by the River
Susan Sheridan on Thea Astley's It's Raining in Mango
Agnes Nieuwenhuizen on A.J. Betts's Zac and Mia
Ruth Starke on Isobelle Carmody's The Gathering
Brian Matthews on Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life
Kerryn Goldsworthy on Robert Dessaix's A Mother's Disgrace
Alice Pung on Garry Disher's The Divine Wind
Kerryn Goldsworthy on Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Danielle Clode on Tim Flannery's Here on Earth
Kári Gíslason on Raimond Gaita's Romulus, My Father
Bernadette Brennan on Helen Garner's The Children's Bach
Miriam Cosic on Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch
Peter Craven on Kate Grenville's Lilian's Story
Felicity Plunkett on Steven Herrick's by the river
Judith Rodriguez on Jack Hibberd's Dimboola
Delys Bird on Elizabeth Jolley's Miss Peabody's Inheritance
Tony Birch on Thomas Keneally's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Morag Fraser on Alex Miller's Journey to the Stone Country
Susan Lever on John Romeril's The Floating World
Patrick Allington on Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance
Peter Kirkpatrick on Kenneth Slessor's One Hundred Poems: 1919–1939
Gary Crew on Shaun Tan's The Lost Thing
Kerryn Goldsworthy on Christos Tsiolkas's The Slap
Billy Griffiths on David Unaipon's Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines