Geordie Williamson

Geordie WilliamsonChief Literary Critic

Christos Tsiolkas’s new novel, an unflinching take on Christianity, is the work for which he will be most remembered.

JM Coetzee’s trilogy of Jesus books contains truths unsullied by the passage of time.

He is about to turn 80 and he will never return home, but Australia remains Clive James’s secret energy source.

BOOK REVIEWReview

Andrew McGahan’s final work draws on past fantastic fiction and reworks it based on contemporary concerns.

The cruel Mother Superior of The Handmaid’s Tale is at the centre of Margaret Atwood’s long-awaited sequel.

Philip Salom’s new novel is as complex as anything in contemporary Australian literature, writes Geordie Williamson

An extraordinary French novel considers the animal without and within.

This novella holds a light to Australia’s destructive past and how its ghost informs our present.

The first instalment of Geoffrey Blainey’s long-awaited autobiography weaves the historian into the historical record.

The arrival of cinema is something that, like the Great War, has slipped out of living memory, but only barely.