Christos Tsiolkas’s new novel, an unflinching take on Christianity, is the work for which he will be most remembered.
Born again
JM Coetzee’s trilogy of Jesus books contains truths unsullied by the passage of time.
Clive’s lives
He is about to turn 80 and he will never return home, but Australia remains Clive James’s secret energy source.
A measure of puny humans
Andrew McGahan’s final work draws on past fantastic fiction and reworks it based on contemporary concerns.
Lydia: an aunt’s story
The cruel Mother Superior of The Handmaid’s Tale is at the centre of Margaret Atwood’s long-awaited sequel.
Love song struck in a minor key
Philip Salom’s new novel is as complex as anything in contemporary Australian literature, writes Geordie Williamson
Meat: the rite to kill
An extraordinary French novel considers the animal without and within.
Shadows that enlighten us
This novella holds a light to Australia’s destructive past and how its ghost informs our present.
Starting from scratch
The first instalment of Geoffrey Blainey’s long-awaited autobiography weaves the historian into the historical record.
Moving pictures
The arrival of cinema is something that, like the Great War, has slipped out of living memory, but only barely.