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Little World, what are you? Josephine Rowe’s latest novel is a precisely drawn enigma

The inexorable passage of an incorruptible body gives this strange, spare story its shape.

19.05.2025 10

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Vanitas and the life of the author: in Chinese Postman, Brian Castro transforms fiction into a mechanism of truth

There was a point in the 1990s where it became fashionable to emphasise that autobiography was fiction. This proposition sprang up to complement an...

13.11.2024 2

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Elegantly and chaotically, Rodney Hall falls into the vortex of history

Rodney Hall’s Vortex is the 13th novel in a long and distinguished career that includes two Miles Franklin Literary Awards for his earlier novels...

20.09.2024 2

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