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Book Review: Narcopolis
If you were to write a story set in Bombay, as the poet Jeet Thayil prefers to call the city now known as Mumbai in his outstanding debut novel, you don't have to work too hard.
Book Review: Out Of It
Tumbling tresses, midnight-pool eyes, alabaster brow. None of these features in the debut novelist's publicity photo should be held against her.
Book Review: Perlmann's Silence
Those who are nervous about speaking in public usually have the perfect way out. They simply don't do it.
Book Review: Leaving Alexandria
The person who is not religious reading this former believer's journey to a lack of faith can be tempted to ask: "What took you so long?"
Book Review: Letters of Frank Sargeson
There are some 500 items in this fascinating selection of Frank Sargeson’s letters — a number that nevertheless represents only about a quarter of the more than 6000 which survive.
Book Review: Waiting For Sunrise
At first sight, Lysander Rief, standing on the corner of the Augustiner Strasse in 1913 Vienna, looks like a hero.
Book Review: It Chooses You
To judge by online reviews, Californian arthouse film-maker Miranda July's movies are something you either love or hate. And it seems her writing is much the same.
Book Review: Zona
Sales pitch: 'I want to write a book that is a sort of summary of a wilfully ambiguous science fiction movie made by a Russian director more than 30 years ago.'
Book Review: In the Absence of Heroes
Recently, while sitting in the airport lounge in Sydney waiting for a flight home, I glanced up from my hardcover book and surveyed the other travellers in my immediate vicinity.
Book Review: Jack Holmes And His Friend
Edmund White has spoken repeatedly of his crawling conviction as a boy and young man that being homosexual was “bad”.
Book Review: The Year Of The Hare
The Year Of The Hare, originally published in 1975, has gone on to sell millions of copies in 18 languages and as two feature films.