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Culture October 02, 2021
Permafrost
I remember the nightmare. Of course I do. It did not want to be forgotten. It demanded space, and I gave it space. The absence of control, the fact I had no say in my narrative – that I was both bystander and helpless protagonist – was an implacable …
Culture April 03, 2021
No Document
There are books readers like. There are books we love. There are even books that, occasionally, we might say we adore. But there is a fourth category, home to another book entirely: the book we have written. Not literally, perhaps – self-congratulatory …
Culture August 07, 2021
The Airways
Occasionally a book arrives that is so strange, so obscure, so crouched and brooding and – in the final analysis – mystifying, that you cannot begin to know what to make of it. Exhibit A: Jennifer Mills’ The Airways. Some of my bafflement …
Culture March 13, 2021
He.
There are certain books, the publication of which it would be an understatement to call anything less than an event. He. is one. It is Murray Bail’s first work in almost a decade. It’s being marketed as his last. Reading it, I was reminded …
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