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Issue Thirteen
KYD No. 13 Teaser: ‘Another World is Possible: Game of Thrones and the Politics of Imagination’
For the final KYD No. 13 teaser, Brad Nguyen looks at how history and the politics of imagination are presented in our favourite HBO fantasy show. Want to read the rest? Of course you do! KYD Issue 13 will be available for purchase on 9th April. In … Read more
Column: Books and Writing
Maps with words: memoirs of Melbourne
This month marks my second anniversary in Melbourne. Since arriving here I’ve noticed something: there are an awful lot of books devoted to telling the stories of this city. I’m not talking about ‘official history’ books here (although there are plenty of those … Read more
Events
Telling uncomfortable truths: Javier Cercas and Juan Gabriel Vásquez on truth and fiction
‘There’s no contradiction between fiction and truth’, said Javier Cercas, as Juan Gabriel Vásquez nodded, telling the sold-out crowd at the Wheeler Centre last Wednesday that the task of the novelist is to arrive at truth through fiction. Guests of the Adelaide Writers’ Week and the Instituto … Read more
Books, Interviews
History in the service of fiction: Anna Funder’s All That I Am
The first thing I did after finishing Anna Funder’s debut novel All That I Am was to order a copy of Ernst Toller’s autobiography I Was a German. Toller features as a ‘character’ in Funder’s much anticipated book. We meet him holed up in a New York … Read more
