
Shirley Hazzard’s wider world
Culture
The celebrated Australian author’s ‘Collected Stories’ sets private desperation in the cosmopolitan Europe she revered
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Shirley Hazzard’s wider world
Culture
The celebrated Australian author’s ‘Collected Stories’ sets private desperation in the cosmopolitan Europe she revered
Tracking time: Gerald Murnane’s ‘A Season on Earth’
Culture
Forty years on, the author’s second novel is reunited with its lost half
The chthonic realms explored in Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Underland’
Culture
Cave systems, mines, urban sewers, mycelial networks, moulins and more
The ghost of creativity spurned
Culture
Richard Flanagan explores a different kind of darkness in ‘First Person’
The antipodes of the imagination
Culture
JM Coetzee’s ‘The Schooldays of Jesus’ is defined by its strangeness
In conscious exile
Culture
Rediscovering the novels of Randolph Stow
‘Acute Misfortune’ by Erik Jensen
Books
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The return of Elizabeth Harrower’s ‘In Certain Circles’
Books
A long-lost novel sees the light after 40 years
Alex Miller’s ’Coal Creek’
Australian Literature
Some writers’ imaginations are roused most strongly by the view from their doorsteps. John Updike created a literary cosmos from the small-town, middle-class Protestant America of his youth. Irishman John McGahern spent a lifetime turning …
The competing sides of Clive James
The clown v. the critic
The Best of Australian Literature 2012
Patrick White
Let’s prick the bubble of contemporaneity for once. Two lost books by a centenarian author were published in 2012. Happy Valley is the first reissue of Patrick White’s 1939 debut, a novel that was later so effectively quashed by its creator …
Fiction masterpiece
Culture
JM Coetzee - ‘Summertime’, 2009
Strange beasts
arts
Sonya’s Hartnett’s ‘Midnight Zoo’