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A.D. Hope called a Patrick White novel ‘verbal sludge’. New books celebrate these literary rivals

A.D. Hope called a Patrick White novel ‘verbal sludge’. New books celebrate these literary rivals

David Brooks, winner of the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, recalls his friendship with AD Hope and recounts falling in love with...

30.09.2025 9

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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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