Chrissy Sharp and Michael Williams talk to Peter Clarke about Melbourne’s new literary hub, the Wheeler Centre
02 Dec 09 Comments (0)Nineteen Eighty-Four turns sixty
It hasn’t happened yet, but Nineteen Eighty-Four has enough threads of prescience to keep us alert, writes Brian McFarlane
09 Jun 09 Comments (1)The rise and rise of Jane Austen
No matter how bad the adaptation or how silly the praise, Jane Austen’s novels contain some of the truest insights into human behaviour ever committed to the page, writes Brian McFarlane
04 May 09 Comments (0)The man and his city
Deep Water brings the Cliff Hardy count to thirty-four. Shane Maloney surveys the career of Sydney’s best-known private investigator
24 Apr 09 Comments (0)Slowly humanised
Judith Armstrong reviews Irène Némirovsky’s novel about a terrorist and his target
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