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Oh Errol, sang Australian Crawl in their hymn to Tasmania’s gift to swashbuckling, I would give everything just to be like him. Such was the strength of the Flynn legend that the band named its second album Sirocco, after the schooner the adventure-seeking 20-year-old sailed from Sydney to New Guinea in 1929. Presumably it wasn’t Errol the tobacco planter and slave trader that inspired the...
Inga Clendinnen
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A Federer Game: J.M. Coetzee's 'Summertime'
Inga Clendinnen | Books | September 2009 | Society & CultureJM Coetzee wrote Boyhood, his account from inside the mind (distanced third person, urgent present tense) of an unnamed South African boy heading into puberty when he was in his fifties. Surely he was young to be writing memoirs? Surely another novel would have been a better use of his time,... -
The Good Soldier: WEH Stanner & "An Appreciation of Difference"
Inga Clendinnen | April 2009 | BooksWEH (‘Bill') Stanner, 1905-1981, Australian anthropologist, is known to most of us through his 1968 Boyer Lectures, titled After the Dreaming. Those lectures were and remain electric, charged with anger for the physical and psychological misery inflicted on Aboriginal Australians by a... -
Only Look, Only See: David Malouf’s ‘On Experience’
Inga Clendinnen | Books | September 2008Matching writers to themes can be a dubious business, but David Malouf and experience are a natural match. My guess is that Malouf has sought experience, relished experience, anatomised experience since he was about three. This is how he recalls the young David of 12 Edmondstone Street (1985):... -
SlowTV: Robert Manne and Inga Clendinnen, Adelaide Writers' Week - part two
Inga Clendinnen | Adelaide | History | Literature | Public event
Robert Manne and Inga Clendinnen discuss their differing approaches to writing history, and writing generally.Adelaide Writers' Week(Part 2 of 2)... » play video -
SlowTV: Robert Manne and Inga Clendinnen, Adelaide Writers' Week
Inga Clendinnen | Adelaide | History | Interview | Literature | Culture
Robert Manne and Inga Clendinnen discuss their differing approaches to writing history, and writing generally.Adelaide Writers' Week(Part 1 of 2) (Click here for Part 2)... » play video -
Lost in the Woods: Norman Mailer’s 'The Castle in the Forest'
Inga Clendinnen | Books | April 2007Lately 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 heavyweights have slipped into the ring: Nobel-winner JM Coetzee, and the long-time champ of the American Middleweight Literary Division, Norman ‘Maler-Than-Thou... -
'Beyond Black' by Hilary Mantel
Inga Clendinnen | Books | Noted | August 2005Alison is a professional psychic working a cluster of grim towns on the fringe of London. She is a woman of “unfeasible size” but onstage, in her draperies, sporting her lucky opals, she transforms into a woman of confidence, presence and charm. While she uses the usual tricks of her trade Alison... -
Brown Skin Black Hearts. Two trail-spotting postcards from two different Australias: 'Kayang & Me' by Kim Scott and Hazel Brown; 'Balanda' by Mary Ellen Jordan
Inga Clendinnen | Books | June 2005A few years back Kim Scott wrote a novel about being of mixed descent in a racially divided society.Benang: From the Heart was a stunning exercise in actuality transfigured by imagination. In Kayang & Me (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 270pp; $29.95), Scott subdues his formidable literary talents...
