May 1, 2021
‘Second Place’ by Rachel Cusk
Culture
After her landmark ‘Outline’ trilogy, the author’s latest novel is inspired by a memoir about D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico
Stephanie Bishop
By this author
October 1, 2020
‘The Lying Life of Adults’ by Elena Ferrante
Culture
The Neapolitan author returns to characters driven by compulsions and tensions of class
April 1, 2021
‘On the Line’ by Joseph Ponthus
Culture
Poetry is found in the processing plants of Brittany
April 1, 2020
‘Strange Hotel’ by Eimear McBride
Culture
A woman unceasingly travels to contend with the inertia of grief, in the latest novel from the author of ‘A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing’
November 1, 2019
‘The Man Who Saw Everything’ by Deborah Levy
Culture
The British author experiments with a narrative structure that collapses past and present
September 1, 2019
‘Here Until August’ by Josephine Rowe
Culture
The Australian author’s second short-story collection focuses on the precipice of change rather than its culmination
October 1, 2018
‘The End’ by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Culture
The ‘My Struggle’ series arrives at a typically exhausting conclusion
August 1, 2018
To have or not to have: Sheila Heti’s ‘Motherhood’ and Jacqueline Rose’s ‘Mothers’
Culture
Heti’s novel asks if a woman should have a child; Rose’s nonfiction considers how society treats her if she does
July 1, 2018
‘Kudos’ by Rachel Cusk
Culture
A masterful trilogy concludes
November 1, 2017
‘The Sparsholt Affair’ by Alan Hollinghurst
Culture
Picador; $32.99
October 1, 2017
‘The Burning Girl’ by Claire Messud
Culture
Fleet; $27.99
September 1, 2017
‘Forest Dark’ by Nicole Krauss
Culture
Bloomsbury; $24.99
July 16, 2017
Surveying the scene
Culture
Art Gallery of NSW celebrates the work of iconic Indigenous photographer Mervyn Bishop