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Articles
Lessons of Enlightenment
Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soulAnd sings the tune without the wordsAnd never stops at...
On ‘The White Earth’, by Andrew McGahan
The first breathtaking pages of The White Earth describe a fire tearing through wheat fields. This is the first of many fires, and as the novel progresses it is this particular element that will come to symbolise some of the more frightening, and ugly, aspects of the Australian psyche.
Interview with
Melanie Cheng
Melanie Cheng is a Melbourne-based writer and practising GP. ‘Muse’, published in Griffith Review 54: Earthly Delights, is part...
Interview with
Graham Lang
Graham Lang is an artist and writer who has published three novels: Clouds Like Black Dogs (Jonathan Ball Publishers,...
Interview with
Daniel Jenkins
Daniel Jenkins grew up in New South Wales. He has spent most of the past ten years living in...
Interview with
Suzanne McCourt
Suzanne McCourt’s first novel The Lost Child (Text, 2014) was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2015. Her novella ‘The...
Interview with
Stephen Orr
Based in Adelaide, Stephen Orr has published several novels, and has been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and...
Learning to read
THE AMERICAN WRITER on the festival circuit had refined his message into this decade’s preferred mode of communication: a...
Muse
I’VE NEGLECTED HER. Her ceilings are soft with cobwebs. Her garden is choked with weeds. Her fence leans, like buckteeth,...
A fulcrum of infinities
SAUL TURNS OFF the bitumen onto the dirt road and drives due west. The ute rattles along over the...
Those boys from Jalaan
RACHEL THERE WAS A cement wall separating the compound from the desert. The wall was three metres high. Purple wildflowers grew...
The last taboo: A love story
HE INSISTS ON a hotel room. You want him to stay with your family – you, Graeme and daughters, Sal...
