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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
