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Geordie WilliamsonChief Literary Critic

WHAT divides animals from humans? For philosophers, that difference has mostly lain in language.

DAVID Malouf, who turns 80 next week, is our great novelist of cohesion and reconciliation.

Geordie Williamson Chief literary critic

HANIF Kureishi’s new novel is exemplary only in its oddity. Reading it is like happening across a grazing hippogriff on your morning walk.

THERE is a certain pleasure to be gained from a volume of collected stories by a writer you admire but have so far read only piecemeal.

SYDNEY’S greater western suburbs are home to a little less than 10 per cent of Australia’s population but in terms of Ozlit it barely registers.

PETIT Mal is a miscellany by the Australian-born, Mexico City-reared, Ireland-based author of Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre.

VIENNESE satirist Karl Kraus notoriously said of journalists that they had “no ideas and the ability to express them”.

IT is hard to write about Eyrie without first discussing an illustrious forebear of Tim Winton’s, especially since he is mentioned in its pages.

NIHAD Sirees wrote a far-sighted allegory of his native Syria in 2004. Its newly published English translation could not be more timely.

A frail humanity survives the unspeakable in this portrait of a flawed war hero.