Fiction
- Janette Turner Hospital in Conversation
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Turner Hospital's award-winning fiction has won her acolytes here and in the US, where she now ...
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- History as Fiction. Marr, Grenville, Rash, Cercas, Erpenpeck
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6109574 History and fiction have long made strange bedfellows. ... fiction to interrogate history. Javier Cercas' best-selling writings have ingeniously explored ... Australia has won her legions of fans the world over; and Jenny Erpenbeck's poetic fictions gracefully ...
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- 'The Mountain' by Drusilla Modjeska
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Robyn Annear It comes as a surprise to realise that The Mountain is Drusilla Modjeska’s first novel, since her writing – acclaimed and awarded as non-fiction – has always inhabited the tidal zone between fact and fiction. Set in Papua ...
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- 'The Weight of a Human Heart' by Ryan O’Neill
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of a novel”, a character weeps “non-fiction tears”. The male characters are illiterate ...
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- A Cad and a Gentleman
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of the science fiction spectrum, is not an entirely successful film, but lingers in the consciousness like ...
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- The Anatomy of a Moment. Javier Cercas in Conversation
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published The Anatomy of a Moment , a non-fiction book about the failed 1981 Spanish coup d'etat. ...
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- China's crisis
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China's crisis: Bo Xilai and the Communist Party " The tale reads like a primer on the rise of Chinese oligarchs, but it is so baroque in its particulars that its closest precedent is in fiction ...
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- And the winner isn't...
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And the winner isn't... "W hen the Pulitzer Prize Board announced on Monday that there were three finalists for the fiction prize ... And finally (Fiction, New York Times) ...
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- Iran's spymaster
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Iran's spymaster "American and British intelligence officials draw comparisons between the real-life Iranian general and the fictional Soviet spymaster Karla, of John le Carre's Cold War novels. Global chess masters both, their goal ...
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- Randy House
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fiction to sell 250,000 copies, dominate the New York Times e-book bestseller list, and earn lucrative ... 2012, Books, Amazon, Conservatism, Crime, Fan fiction, Fiction, Fifty Shades of Grey, Music industry, ...
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- 'The Hanging Garden' by Patrick White
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and oppress in White’s fiction. The barbed wit flashes, too. Mr Harbord, one of White’s ordinary Australian ... (April 2012, Noted, Fiction, Greece, Patrick White, World War II) ...
The Monthly - Michelle de Kretser - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Do we need stories?
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Do we need stories? " I can imagine readers drawing comfort from the idea that their fiction habit is essential sustenance and not a luxury. ... (Fiction, New York Review of Books) ...
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- That Blockhead Thing
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(richard debut) (April 2012, Music, Aztec music, David Bowie, Music, Musicians, Non-Fiction, Painting, ...
The Monthly - Richard Guilliatt - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Short cuts: On fact-checking
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(creative writing, Non-Fiction, Writing, London Review of Books) ...
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- The writer's job
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(creative writing, Writing, Writing fiction, New York Review of Books) ...
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- Ice Works
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(works) (March 2012, Arts & Letters, Antarctica, Captain Cook, Fiction, South Pole) ...
The Monthly - David Day - 2012-03-01 10:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Romance novels, the last great bastion of underground literature
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(Literary criticism, Literature, Romantic fiction, The Awl) ...
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- The woman who rewrote the rules of romantic fiction
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The woman who rewrote the rules of romantic fiction "Nora Roberts is probably the most successful novelist you've never heard of. She ... General item (Fiction, Romantic fiction, Guardian) ...
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- 'Outland' by Kevin Carlin
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in a wheelchair.) In any case, speculative fiction has always been a distinctly queer domain. From ... (February 2012, Noted, Australian Television, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, Fiction, Homosexuality, Humour, Outland, Queer as Folk, Science-fiction, Sexuality, Torchwood) ...
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- Fiction Masterpiece
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African–born Nobel Prize winner as the best work of Australian fiction since the dawn of the new century? ... (itself a signal novel of the last quarter-century). A fictional examination of the author’s life between ... (fiction masterpiece, fiction masterpiece) (October 2011, Masterpieces, Arts & Letters, 20 ...
The Monthly - Geordie Williamson - 2011-10-06 12:54 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- December 2011 Editors Note
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People often lament that they don't have time to read fiction. In our social media age, ... fiction can become a low priority. But it is always seemed to me that top-line fiction and non-fiction ... Shakespeare demonstrate the range and power of great fiction. There's also an abundance ...
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- The Cypherpunk Revolutionary
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jokingly called them cypherpunks, a play on cyberpunk, the “hi-tech, low-life” science-fiction genre. ...
The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments
- Literary genre translations
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General item (Fiction, Writing fiction, McSweeney's) ...
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- Tolkien, Twilight and fantasy for young adults
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(Fiction, New Yorker) ...
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- Temple of Tears: New fiction by Geoff Dyer
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Temple of Tears: New fiction by Geoff Dyer "By the time we woke up the planes had hit and the Towers were down. I never got over this lag, never ... (Fiction, Geoff Dyer, Guardian) ...
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