November 1, 2018
‘Killing Commendatore’ by Haruki Murakami
Culture
Art, music and mystery abound in the Japanese author’s latest novel
Helen Elliott
By this author
September 1, 2018
‘One Hundred Years of Dirt’ by Rick Morton
Culture
A social affairs reporter turns the pen on himself
October 1, 2018
‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’ by Olga Tokarczuk
Culture
Offbeat intrigue from a Booker Prize winner
August 1, 2018
‘Less’ by Andrew Sean Greer
Culture
The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel is an engaging story of love and literary misadventure
July 18, 2018
‘The Fireflies of Autumn’: a bittersweet take on the Tuscan idyll
Culture
Moreno Giovannoni’s debut collection examines dislocation in a way rarely seen
June 1, 2018
‘Axiomatic’ by Maria Tumarkin
Culture
This collection of bracing essays interrogates how we view the past
May 1, 2018
‘A Sand Archive’ by Gregory Day
Culture
Day grasps landscape as an intimate living thing
March 1, 2018
‘The Only Story’ by Julian Barnes
Culture
The meticulous novelist takes on the oldest subject there is
February 1, 2018
‘Border Districts’ by Gerald Murnane
Culture
Writing that rewards patience
December 1, 2017
‘City of Crows’ by Chris Womersley
Culture
Picador; $32.99
October 1, 2017
‘The Choke’ by Sofie Laguna
Culture
Allen & Unwin; $32.99
September 15, 2017
What can’t be said in ‘Conversations with Friends’
Culture
The protagonists of Sally Rooney’s debut novel privilege irony over emotion
September 1, 2017
‘Home Fire’ by Kamila Shamsie
Culture
Shamsie’s seventh novel puts a modern spin on an Ancient Greek tragedy