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- The Handbag Studio, single work essay
- The Tall Man, single work essay
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The One Day,
single work
essay
''Silence was a deeply established tradition. Men used it as a form of self-protection; it saved those who had experienced the horrors of war from the emotional trauma of experiencing it all over again in the telling. And it saved women and children, back home, from the terrible knowledge of what they had seen and walked away from … One result of this was that the men who had actually lived through Gallipoli and the trenches did not write about it.'
'In the century since the Gallipoli landing, Anzac Day has taken on a different tenor for each succeeding generation. Perceptively and evocatively, David Malouf traces the meaning of this 'one day' when Australians stop to reflect on endurance, service and the folly of war. He shows how what was once history has now passed into legend, and how we have found in Anzac Day 'a truly national occasion.'' (Publication summary)
- A City Obsessed, single work essay
- Arrayed for the Bridal The Dress, single work essay
- Big Louis, single work essay
- On Becoming a Mormon for a While and Other Madnesses Diary, single work autobiography
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Patrick White : The Final Chapter,
single work
criticism
In this wide ranging essay, David Marr writes of the final years and the deaths of Patrick White and Manoly Lascaris and the survival of 32 boxes of White's letters, notebooks and manuscripts now held at the National Library of Australia. Marr discusses the White papers including drafts and fragments of unpublished novels in manuscript specifically one known as 'The Hanging Garden'. He recounts White's writing from the early 1980s of 'no more big novels, but speeches, plays and shorter prose works' and also discusses his own writing of White's biography as well as an interesting aside on a collection sent to the National Library by artist and set-designer, Desmond Digby, which includes a series of index cards on which Digby noted his telephone conversations with White.
- The Great Generation of Australian Policy, single work essay
- Arthur Boyd: a Life, single work essay
- The First Sense, single work autobiography
- Into a Liquid Ether, single work essay
- Unforgiven, single work autobiography
- "What're Yer Lookin' at Yer Fuckin' Dog?" : Violence and Fear on Zizek's Post-polictical Neighbourhood, single work essay
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Bradman the Liberator,
single work
essay
The relationship between Australia and England was changed through cricket. '...Bradman's cricketing duel with England...helped spare Australians undue angst when the time came...for the two countries to go their separate ways in the world.' (p.18)
- Late Starter Starting Too Late, single work autobiography
- From the Red Country, single work essay
- How We Cheated Flames of Death, single work essay
- The Inferno, single work essay
- The Nobel Lecture in Literature, single work essay short story
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Works about this Work
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A Test for a Decade's Best
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 April 2011; (p. 19)
— Review of The Best Australian Essays : A Ten Year Collection 2011 anthology essay ; The Best Australian Stories : A Ten Year Collection 2011 anthology short story -
On the National Interest
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16 -17 April 2011; (p. 22)
— Review of The Best Australian Essays : A Ten Year Collection 2011 anthology essay
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On the National Interest
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16 -17 April 2011; (p. 22)
— Review of The Best Australian Essays : A Ten Year Collection 2011 anthology essay -
A Test for a Decade's Best
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 April 2011; (p. 19)
— Review of The Best Australian Essays : A Ten Year Collection 2011 anthology essay ; The Best Australian Stories : A Ten Year Collection 2011 anthology short story