GERALD MURNANE WITH HIS WIFE, CATHERINE, IN BENDIGO, 1989.

I want to live a beautiful life but I can’t help but notice there is something fundamentally disgusting about it all.” ...

Extracts from new books by Antonio diBenedetto, Peter Szendy, Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel, Saidiya Hartman, and Lyndsy ...

I’m tired of lying here. The mountain and the river are not bad.

On fan recognition: “My wife thinks I'm constantly walking around thinking I'm famous and that someone's recognized me when all they're looking at is my possible bad taste in clothing.” ...

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What is your favorite crime in literature? BORI AKUNIN: "And when the woman saw chat the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant co the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she ...

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

In 1917, my father's naval training completed he received his ensign's commission and shortly thereafter sailed as a signal officer on a troopship to Europe still in the wrong-colored uniform among ...

“I don’t write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that’s not why I write. I work as an artist. All art is political in the sense that it serves someone’s politics ...