Caravaggio perfected painting people at the exact moment when dark gives way to light. In Damascus, Tsolkias achieves the same effect in words.
Review: Australia Day by Melanie Cheng
Australia Day is a revealing and uncomfortable diagnosis of Australia’s multicultural insecurities.
Patrick White spills the tea in Voss
Patrick White was the first Australian to win a Nobel Prize for literature. He was also a huge homo.
Review: The Pillars by Peter Polites
The Pillars is a novel where property power is everything and each word seems to take on a menacing aura.
Glittering ichthyosaurs in Heart of Darkness
My favourite imagery in all of literature comes from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
Review: The Old Lie by Claire G. Coleman
The old Lie, according to WWI poet Wilfred Owen, is that there is glory to be found in dying for one’s country. Claire G. Coleman’s new novel of the same title is a systematic demolishing of that lie.
The Library Is Open 