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Jen WebbThe Conversation |
Beautiful and witty, Edwina Preston’s novel Sorocidal reveals an unnervingly precise understanding of the dark side of childhood.
Beautiful and witty, family novel Sorocidal reveals an unnervingly precise understanding of the dark side of childhood.
Debra Adelaide’s new book, When I Am Sixty-Four, is a complex, devastating and often funny love letter to her friend, the late Gabrielle Carey.
Literary journalists Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein take us inside their conversations on the mushroom trial, writing and notorious...
Max Porter’s stories of people on the margins are told in fragments, flickering images, surprising swirls of language and wit.
‘If an abyss is where I shall be for the rest of my life’, writes Yiyun Li, ‘the abyss is my habitat.’ Her book is a major contribution to...
Han Kang’s characters have looked squarely at histories of state-sanctioned murder and carry the wounds of those histories.