BOOK REVIEW: Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice (Stuart Littlemore, HarperCollins)
Stuart Littlemore, QC and barrister, is best known for his role as writer and host of ABC’s Media Watch from its inception in 1989 to 1997. Littlemore, having returned to...
BOOK REVIEW: Night Street (Kristel Thornell, A&U)
Whether or not you are familiar with the work of Clarice Beckett, this sensitive novel about that talented young painter will captivate. A passionate artist who lived her life as...
Learning to balance: Nicholas Carr’s ‘The Shallows’ (Atlantic)
Nicholas Carr lays out his non-Luddite credentials early on in The Shallows—his critical look at ‘how the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember’ (Atlantic, August). In...
BOOK REVIEW: Wordlines: Contemporary Australian writing (selected by Hilary McPhee, Five Mile Press)
Hilary McPhee, as many will know, is one of Australia’s most respected publishing figures. Thus, my reaction to hearing that she has created a collection of Australian short fiction was...
BOOK REVIEW: Miscellaneous Voices: Australian Blog Writing No. 1 (ed by Karen Andrews, Miscellaneous Press)
Some would not agree that some of the best writing appears in blogs. Editor Karen Andrews throws down the gauntlet by introducing her anthology as ‘an experiment to see how...