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Geordie WilliamsonChief Literary Critic

Gail Jones’s new novel is set in modern-day Berlin but Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov haunts its every page.

Peter Carey, David Malouf and Murray Bail are among those to whom Craig Munro dedicates entire chapters.

Australia’s literary magazines have long charted the nation’s cultural evolution.

Mireille Juchau’s third novel tackles issues of love, loss, damage and grief via the fragility of the natural world.

Comparisons with Mockingbird are neither warranted nor appropriate when reading Harper Lee’s ‘new’ book.

Comparisons with Mockingbird are neither warranted nor appropriate when reading Harper Lee’s ‘new’ book.

In Interviews with New Left Review, Raymond Williams’s socialism is shown to be full of conflict and qualification.

This short piece from Milan Kundera belongs more firmly in the Gallic literary tradition than the Mitteleuropean.

A new biography of Thea Astley should renew our fascination with a writer who encapsulated the contradictions of her time.

Here is a novel that manages to expand the possibilities of a literary form while narrowing its potential range.