Desire denied

Glenn Nicholls reviews Cory Taylor’s novel about love in an Australian internment camp

31 May 13 | Comments (0)

Women behaving badly

Does Jane Austen teach us how to live? Emphatically no, writes Jill Kitson in this review first published in 2011. And Peter Browne pays tribute to this longstanding Inside Story contributor, who died last weekend

16 May 13 | Comments (4)

The adaptive eye

The boldest translations of book to film usually make for the best cinema, argues Brian McFarlane

02 May 13 | Comments (0)

Poison? Ivy? No: merely the least-read great novelist

There is no one quite like Ivy Compton-Burnett, writes Brian McFarlane

29 Aug 12 | Comments (0)

Lifelines

David Park’s new novel adds to the evidence that we are in the midst of a golden age of Northern Irish fiction, writes Matthew McGuire

07 Aug 12 | Comments (0)

Another universe

Richard Johnstone reviews Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure

03 Aug 12 | Comments (0)

Landscape with figures

Richard Johnstone reviews William Maxwell’s The Château

04 Jul 12 | Comments (0)

An outsider at war

Richard Johnstone reviews Frederic Manning’s extraordinary account of the foot soldiers of the first world war

04 Jun 12 | Comments (0)

From cold warrior to Tory radical

In John Le Carré’s five-decade writing career, Peter Love detects growing echoes of an older voice

10 May 12 | Comments (1)

How weird does this mob still seem?

Impossibly remote in many ways, the late fifties are portrayed with verve and nuance in John O’Grady’s bestselling novel, writes Brian McFarlane

01 May 12 | Comments (0)

Life; London; this moment of June

Although she undoubtedly drew on her own life, Virginia Woolf’s modernist novels are not essays about herself, writes Jill Kitson. Woolf wrote about “life and death, sanity and insanity, through the shimmer of thoughts”

13 Apr 12 | Comments (3)

Friending

Richard Johnstone reviews Kirsten Tranter’s A Common Loss

07 Mar 12 | Comments (1)

Along the pot-holed track

Visiting Alice Springs opens up other journeys captured on film and in prose and poetry, writes Sylvia Lawson in this extract from her new book

16 Feb 12 | Comments (2)

How it went with the whale

Richard Johnstone reviews Matías Néspolo’s Seven Ways to Kill a Cat

01 Feb 12 | Comments (0)

Dickens’s full marathon

Charles Dickens turns 200 in February. Richard Johnstone looks at a life that might have turned on the placement of an inkstand

08 Dec 11 | Comments (0)

“I feared I would never, in my life, be able to write a book again”

A bestselling author in the early thirties, Irmgard Keun left Nazi Germany in 1936 only to return during the war, writes Geoff Wilkes

20 Oct 11 | Comments (0)

Sensational fiction in Marvellous Melbourne

Susan K. Martin and Kylie Mirmohamadi look at a sub-genre of popular writing that spanned the globe from London to Melbourne

05 Oct 11 | Comments (0)

Caught again by Catch-22

On its fiftieth anniversary Brian McFarlane rereads Joseph Heller’s classic anti-war novel

22 Aug 11 | Comments (0)

Something in the water

Linda Jaivin reviews the Chinese-language edition of Chan Koonchung’s controversial novel The Fat Years, now available in English

16 Aug 11 | Comments (0)

Hearts and minds

Christopher Snedden reviews two books – a memoir and a novel – about the conflict in Kashmir

28 Jun 11 | Comments (0)