To someone who teaches the history, theory and practice of editing and publishing, Richard Nile's The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination presents itself as…
At the 1998 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards the keynote speech was given by visiting English actress Claire Bloom. She admitted to the audience that she…
Michael Wilding's 'Canal Run', a story from The West Midland Underground (1975), fuses two of his powerful early influences, D.H. Lawrence and Alan Sillitoe. In…
For Australian literary criticism it is the best of times. It is also the worst of times. On the one hand, we are seeing the…
THE colonisation of Aboriginal land is a moment of at least two clear examples of British imperial barbarity. In their study Dark Side of the…
There are at least two reasons for the absence of a communist cultural discourse in contemporary Australian literary studies. First, there is the ideological orientation…