November 1, 2013
Eimear McBride’s ‘A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing’
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Alexandra Coghlan
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May 1, 2013
‘Burial Rites’ by Hannah Kent
Books
The popular fascination with Nordic murder mysteries takes a historical turn in Burial Rites, the debut novel from Australian author Hannah Kent. In 1829 servant Agnes Magnúsdóttir became the last woman to be beheaded in Iceland. …
October 4, 2012
The novel lives
Authors
Visiting Orhan Pamuk’s 'Museum of Innocence'
October 5, 2012
’Silent House’ by Orhan Pamuk
Fiction
Originally published in 1983, Orhan Pamuk’s second novel has only now been translated into English. It’s an oversight that gives us a curious illusion of familiarity, of divination even. We already know the books this early experiment in narrative …
July 5, 2012
In the Flesh
Berlinde De Bruyckere
July 3, 2009
‘Figurehead’ by Patrick Allington
Culture
“I was beside myself that he’d thanked me for saving his life. Not with rage exactly. Not guilt … grief maybe. It was as if I’d donated bone marrow to him and now I wanted it back.” When the Australian journalist Ted Whittlemore saves the life …
April 1, 2009
‘The Striped World’ by Emma Jones
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Awarded Australia's prestigious Newcastle Poetry Prize in 2005 for her poem ‘Zoos for the Dead', it is with the publication of her debut collection, The Striped World, that Emma Jones makes her first inroads into the broader poetic consciousness. …
October 1, 2008
Pilgrimage
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Robert Dessaix’s ‘Arabesques’
August 6, 2008
‘The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn: Colour Photographs from a Lost Age’ by David Okuefuna
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The Buddhist monk aflame in Saigon of 1963; the mushroom cloud of the Nagasaki atom bomb; September 11's Falling Man: the familiar visual touchstones of the conflicts of our age. Yet before the era of reportage and the impact photo, before the concept …