August 24, 2021
No success like failure: Brandon Jack’s memoir ‘28’
Culture
The former Sydney Swans player restores a measure of dignity to defeat
Adam Rivett
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July 9, 2021
American gusto: James Ellroy’s ‘Widespread Panic’
Culture
Pimps, peddlers and private eyes populate the latest novel by the ‘L.A. Confidential’ author
July 15, 2021
‘Black Widow’ and an endless future of adequate spectacle
Culture
On Marvel, Disney and the dismal state of the modern blockbuster
September 1, 2020
‘What Are You Going Through’ by Sigrid Nunez
Culture
The late-life author of ‘The Friend’ delivers a chastening and discursive novel of mourning
August 1, 2020
‘Antkind’ by Charlie Kaufman
Culture
The debut novel from the screenwriter and director of ‘Being John Malkovich’, ‘Synecdoche, New York’ and more is the zippiest postmodern, self-referential doorstop you’ll ever read
March 13, 2020
Make ’em laugh: ‘Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming’
Culture
On surrendering to the altogether amusing madness of László Krasznahorkai’s prose
February 1, 2020
‘A Couple of Things Before the End’ by Sean O’Beirne
Culture
The Australian author’s debut story collection confidently converts the linguistic detritus of our era into something of lasting value
February 22, 2019
‘Stan & Ollie’: a beautiful lie
Culture
Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly are perfectly cast in this affectionate biopic
March 1, 2019
‘Exploded View’ by Carrie Tiffany
Culture
This new novel is most striking in how it diverges from its predecessors
December 1, 2018
Fair judgement without surrender: Chloe Hooper’s ‘The Arsonist’
Culture
The author of ‘The Tall Man’ tries to understand the motivations of a Black Saturday firebug
November 2, 2018
‘Normal People’ by Sally Rooney
Culture
This Booker Prize–longlisted examination of human nature is simply moving
April 1, 2018
Ceridwen Dovey’s ‘In the Garden of the Fugitives’
Culture
Reality flexes at the edges of Dovey’s second novel
December 15, 2017
AS Patrić’s ‘Atlantic Black’ and the challenges of historical fiction
Culture
This ambitious second novel doesn’t quite live up to its Miles Franklin–winning predecessor