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Tweet Graham Jackson reviews the first novel by Macushla O’Loan — a Gothic Greek tragedy turned thriller, set in suburban Melbourne. ‘Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad’ is generally attributed to Euripides, one of...
Tweet Mark Latham may have succumbed to the creed of neo-liberalism, but he has summed up the Abbott right to perfection in his new Quarterly Essay, says Graham Jackson. As an old card-carrying trade unionist, I spent part of my Victorian Labour...
Tweet The book Dial M for Murdoch is a chilling reminder, writes Graham Jackson, that Rupert Murdoch does not run normal businesses, but rather shadow states. Reading the enthralling book Dial M for Murdoch in Australia is a strange experience. While...
Tweet Tiernan Kelly says the gritty new debut novel by brothers Josh and Benny Jones features outstanding character dialogue. Now it was my time to perform, to chill the bar out and sooth the patrons. I turned the microphone on, took a puff...
Tweet Margo Kingston’s 2007 bestseller ‘Still Not Happy, John!’has been relaunched as an ebook. Here’s Margo’s illuminating new introduction, in which she also discusses her new life in new media. It’s a funny feeling to...
Tweet In by no means a hagiography, Bob Ellis writes that he met Bryce Courtenay in 1962, was fired by him, and had complicated feelings about him. I MET Bryce Courtenay in 1962 and knew him fairly well for a while and I have complicated feelings...
Tweet In Campbell Newman’s Queensland, the Government slashes funding for literature and the arts, but throws money at the producers of Big Brother. Kelly Butterworth reports. (Image courtesy chadstjames.com) THE CAMPBELL NEWMAN Queensland...
Tweet A new book reflects on the Orwellian tactics exercised by Rupert Murdoch through his News Corp bureaucracy, writes Rodney E. Lever. When Rupert Murdoch and I were growing up in the 1930s and 1940s there was one name on everybody’s lips:...
Tweet In the last few years zombies have taken over post-apocalyptic fiction from their evil dead vampire cousins. This weekend the zombie apocalypse takes over the streets of Brisbane, writes Glenn Davies. IT HAS BEEN a big week for Brisbane...
Tweet Now in its fourth year, the National Republican Short Story Competition is helping to build the emerging Australian republican fiction genre, says history editor Dr Glenn Davies. THE National Republican Short Story Competition is open...
