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May, 2024
Nam Le’s ‘36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem’
The writer’s long-awaited return is a poetry collection that probes the risks of reclaiming histories of colonial traumas
May, 2024
The novelist and essayist’s revelatory exploration of the ocean depths goes beyond science to offer historical, cultural and moral contexts
April, 2024
Jonathan Lethem’s ‘Brooklyn Crime Novel’
The American author of ’70s New York classic ‘The Fortress of Solitude’ reckons with changes in ideas around identity and authenticity
April, 2024
The persistence of memory: Gabriel García Márquez’s ‘Until August’
The decision to posthumously publish the Colombian master’s final novel, written while suffering dementia, is vindicated by its qualities
March, 2024
Sheila Heti’s ‘Alphabetical Diaries’
The Canadian writer’s presentation of sentence-long entries from her diaries, organised alphabetically, delivers a playful and unpredictable self-examination
March, 2024
The American author and critic’s essay collection moves from her gripes with contemporary cultural criticism to personal reflection
March, 2024
An imagined life: David Malouf
Celebrating the literary great’s 90th birthday with a visit to his incongruous home of Surfers Paradise to discuss a life in letters
February, 2024
Delphine de Vigan’s ‘Kids Run the Show’
The French author’s fragmentary novel employs the horror genre to explore anxieties about intimacy, celebrity and our infatuation with life on screens
February, 2024
Novel gazing: McKenzie Wark’s ‘Love and Money, Sex and Death’
The expat writer and scholar’s memoir is an inquiry into “what it means to experience the self as both an intimate and a stranger”
December, 2023
Richard Flanagan's ‘Question 7’
A slim volume of big ideas that takes in H.G. Wells, chain reaction, Hiroshima and the author’s near-death experience on the Franklin River