Geordie Williamson

Friends of JM Coetzee have marked the Nobel laureate’s 80th birthday in ways that suggest his unique place in the literary world.

Anne Enright’s new novel, centred on a famous actress and her daughter, explores the complexities of a ‘life seen from the wings’.

Wicked sometimes, often caustic, occasionally savage: this was the guilty pleasure of the Victorian era.

The reputation of short fiction writer Lydia Davis has quickly changed

As I type, the haze outside my study window in southern Tasmania has thickened to the consistency of stained milk.

summer readingReview

There’s plenty of good reading for your holiday time but there’s a cloud on the horizon for Australian literature.

Madhuri Vijay’s debut novel taps into an Indian rage well known to VS Naipal.

Clive James left Australia long ago but his legacy in this country is immeasurable, writes Geordie Williamson.

Michelle de Kretser found kinship in the writing of expat Shirley Hazzard, who fled permanently in the early 60s.

They say old age is not for sissies. But middle age as depicted by French provocateur Michel Houellebecq brings its own pallete of regret.