AustLit
Latest Issues
Contents
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Listen to the Sirens,
single work
review
— Review of The Natural Way of Things 2015 single work novel ; -
The Atmosphere We Live In,
single work
review
— Review of The World Without Us 2015 single work novel ; -
Quiet Conversations in a Very Noisy Room : Tilting at Windmills,
single work
review
— Review of Tilting at Windmills : The Literary Magazine in Australia, 1968-2012 2015 single work criticism ;'Phillip Edmonds’ short story, ‘The Soapbox’, published in the Griffith Review in 2008, is about an Australian named Warwick who moves to London and works at the Ministry of the Arts, where he takes ‘responsibility’ for the public forums at Speakers Corner — a task necessary because ‘the number of voluntary speakers at Hyde Park’ has ‘been dwindling, perhaps due to people getting older and the internet’. Warwick tries different strategies, but nothing draws audiences beyond groups of confused tourists. The ministry seems pleased with his efforts (‘the important thing’, he is told is ‘that things be seen to be done as much as being done’), but Warwick resigns in frustration and decides to return to Australia, though not before erecting a homemade soapbox in Hyde Park as a symbolic protest. The story ends with the narrator telling us that Warwick ‘stopped stressing about whether anyone was listening and gave up on being ashamed of daring to dream’.' (Introduction)
- Reflections on the Stella Count, single work essay
- Awakening to Darkness, single work essay
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‘Could Not Put It Down’,
single work
review
— Review of The Landing 2015 single work novel ; Relativity 2015 single work novel ; The Other Side of the World 2015 single work novel ; -
Return Voyage,
single work
review
— Review of Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice 1998 single work prose autobiography ; - Gerald Murnane : An Idiot in the Greek Sense, single work essay
- Writing, Editing : An Interview With Ellen Van Neerven, single work interview
- The Novel, Sense-Making, and Mao, single work essay