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Not beyond imagining
IT'S FIVE-ISH ON a dark November evening in Maynooth, the thriving university town on the edge of Dublin where...
Beyond the ‘smell of an oily rag’
THERE IS A need for a significant paradigm shift in how we support and grow the cultural sector. If...
Interview with Annie Zaidi
ANNIE ZAIDI IS a journalist and creative writer based in Mumbai. Since the publication of her first book –...
On ‘The Complete Stories’, by David Malouf
THERE ARE ALWAYS two landscapes in a Malouf story. The one you can touch with your hands, and the one that is dreamed – discoverable by language, always on the verge of disappearing.
On ‘Five Bells’, by Gail Jones
GAIL JONES’ FIFTH novel, Five Bells, is many things: a love letter to Sydney and its physical beauty; a deeply moving exploration of the effects of grief and loss; and, perhaps most importantly, a luminous and shimmering reflection on time, memory and mortality.
On ‘Grace’, by Robert Drewe
THE ‘SOCIAL REALIST novel’ that Robert Drewe quite deliberately set out to write with Grace could have sunk under the weight of its own ideas, were it not for the thriller foil the story is wrapped in.
On ‘Don’t Take Your Love to Town’, by Ruby Langford Ginibi
N 1988, DON’T Take Your Love to Town became the first of five autobiographies that Ruby Langford Ginibi would have published during her almost thirty-year career as a writer, Aboriginal historian, activist and lecturer. Indeed it was this first book, her life story covering five generations of familial bonds, written in what would become her trademark conversational style, which would have a historic impression on Indigenous literature in Australia.
On ‘Nine Parts of Desire’, by Geraldine Brooks
Welcome to the artful world of literary and narrative non-fiction, where the author’s experience is shuffled and edited in ways that dramatise and personalise the story for readers.
Wake up while the flowers are blossoming
CHINA’S PRESIDENT XI Jinping and I have a common understanding: we believe that the internet has become the Chinese...
All for the people, without the people
‘WHEN YOU DON’T like whoever is in charge, you can vote them out. Right?’ It’s two in the morning, and...
The conscience of Somchai
TAKE A BANGKOKIAN. Let’s called him Somchai. He’s in his mid-thirties and is of (typical) Thai–Chinese ethnicity.Somchai grew up...
Behind the mask of an emergency
Winner, 2016 Walkley Young Journalist of the Year Awards – Student Journalist of the Year categoryTHERE WERE MANY things...
