Tag Archives: Reviews
Editors' Picks
Editors’ picks for February: The Rosie Project, Girls Soundtrack Vol. 1, and Quiet
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion — Imogen Kandel, Online Editor I often try to convince myself that I dislike romance novels – it’s a strict diet of David Foster Wallace and Camus for me, thank you very much. But I do suffer from the occasional … Read more
Film
Cloud hopping
David Mitchell’s Booker-shortlisted 2004 novel Cloud Atlas is one of my all-time favourite books; it’s also a novel that tends to divide people. When I forced my book club to read it back in 2009, the response (to my everlasting heartbreak) was universally negative. Earlier this year, … Read more
Column: Art / Music / Theatre
Life’s Unfamiliarity
Much of modern art aims – ad nauseam, in many cases – to uncover the intrinsic oddness of seemingly everyday experiences. Thomas Demand’s latest exhibition conforms to this template. Many of the photographs in his NGV exhibition depict superficially ‘normal’ scenes, which become more unsettling with each … Read more
Music
Little Prince, big performance: a message from the cheap seats
For a long time I wasn’t sure that I was a stadium show person. I often found myself let down by costly international acts and blockbusters at Rod Laver Arena, attending shows by definitive artists more for the sense of ‘being there’ than for enjoying their exhausted … Read more
News
Killings reviews featured at NSW Writers’ Centre blog
This year, the NSW Writers’ Centre blog is running a fantastic project called ‘Year of Writing 2012: 366 Days of Writing’, to coincide with the National Year of Reading 2012 (www.love2read.org.au). The blog is featuring a review a day for each day of the year, about an … Read more
Reviews
The Room of One’s Own You Don’t Want: Emma Donoghue’s Room
Emma Donoghue, Room, Picador, 9780330519014, $32.99 Only a few days after the Fritzl family had been discovered in their dungeon in Austria, the concept for Room came to Irish-Canadian writer Emma Donoghue: mother and son held prisoner in a cork-lined, purpose-built garden shed, told from the point … Read more
Reviews
Possibility and powerlessness: Andrew Porter’s The Theory of Light and Matter [review]
Thanks to our friends at Text Publishing, we have two copies of Andrew Porter’s The Theory of Light and Matter to give away. Details will appear in our April newsletter, which you can join here. The Theory of Light and Matter Andrew Porter Text Publishing RRP: $27.95 … Read more
Issue One
‘Fresh and entertaining, featuring witty and enthusiastic new voices’: review in The Independent Weekly
‘Samantha Bond has reviewed issue one of Kill Your Darlings for The Independent Weekly. You can read why she thinks it ‘lives up to its editorial hype’ here.
Issue One
Full text of selected Issue One content available online now: Kalinda Ashton, Clementine Ford, Anthony Morris
Kill Your Darlings contains, inter alia, amazing fiction, commentary and reviews. In the spirit of sharing the love, we have selected as full-text offerings some of the fine words put to paper by our Issue One contributors. For your reading pleasure: Finding Out by Kalinda Ashton Love in … Read more
