Inga Clendinnen
Books, Arts & Letters
When the Centre Cannot Hold: Joan Didion’s 'Blue Nights'
Inga Clendinnen
Along with many others, I was first drawn to Joan Didion when I read her 1967 essay ‘Slouching towards Bethlehem’. It presented a...
More ...Case Histories: Hans Keilson’s 'The Death of the Adversary' and 'Comedy in a Minor Key'
Inga Clendinnen
Hans Keilson, a retired psychiatrist of German birth who lives in Amsterdam, was four months away from his one-hundred-and-first birthday...
More ...The Politics of Prose: David Grossman's 'To the End of the Land'
Inga Clendinnen
The Israeli novelist David Grossman leapt to international attention in the late ’80s with the release of his See Under: Love, translated...
More ...End of History: Yann Martel's 'Beatrice and Virgil'
Inga Clendinnen
Not many people had heard of Yann Martel, the implausibly named Canadian novelist, before he won the 2002 Man Booker Prize for an...
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A Federer Game: J.M. Coetzee's 'Summertime'
Inga Clendinnen
JM Coetzee wrote Boyhood, his account from inside the mind (distanced third person, urgent present tense) of an unnamed South African boy...
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The Good Soldier: WEH Stanner & "An Appreciation of Difference"
Inga Clendinnen
WEH (‘Bill') Stanner, 1905-1981, Australian anthropologist, is known to most of us through his 1968 Boyer Lectures, titled After the...
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Only Look, Only See: David Malouf’s ‘On Experience’
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Matching writers to themes can be a dubious business, but David Malouf and experience are a natural match. My guess is that Malouf has...
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Robert Manne and Inga Clendinnen, Adelaide Writers' Week - part two
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Robert Manne and Inga Clendinnen discuss their differing approaches to writing history, and writing generally.Adelaide Writers' Week(...
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Robert Manne and Inga Clendinnen, Adelaide Writers' Week
Robert Manne and Inga Clendinnen discuss their differing approaches to writing history, and writing generally.Adelaide Writers' Week(...
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Lost in the Woods: Norman Mailer’s 'The Castle in the Forest'
Inga Clendinnen
Lately I have been pursuing novelists who seem to think they are writing near-enough history, when in fact they are making it up. Now two...
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