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1 The Schooldays of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee Is an Elaborate Number-dance Andrew Rlemer , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 9 September 2016;
— Review of The Schooldays of Jesus J. M. Coetzee , 2016 single work single work novel 'The Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee's new novel begins with an epigraph in Spanish from Don Quixote: "Some say that second parts are never any good." This can be seen either as a challenge or as an insurance policy, perhaps both. The Schooldays of Jesus is a sequel to (or more accurately a continuation of) Coetzee's 2013 novel The Childhood of Jesus. In this "second part" Coetzee ensures that the main preoccupations of his earlier work are alluded to, though often in so oblique a manner that readers unfamiliar with it might well find themselves puzzled and perplexed. ...'
1 Anthony Macris Observes Lonely Crowds in Inexperience and Other Stories Andrew Rlemer , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 8 September 2016;
— Review of Inexperience and Other Stories Anthony Macris , 2016 selected work short story 'The Sydney-based writer Anthony Macris has a modest body of published works: two novels, some shorter pieces and a memoir centred on his family's experience of autism. Not surprisingly, therefore, he is not as well-known outside literary circles as he should be. There is, nevertheless, another reason why his is not a household name among readers of recent fiction. His novels and short stories do not fit the mould of what constitutes these days marketable "products". For all that, Macris, who seems to me one of the most interesting writers of our time, has not lacked critical esteem. ...'
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