Christos Tsiolkas
Articles
- Interview with Christos Tsiolkas: ‘What Does Fiction Do?’: On Dead Europe: Ethics and Aesthetics
A comprehensive interview with Christos Tsiolkas.
1 November 2008 - Future Tense: Dead Europe and Viral Anti-Semitism
The article examines the ways in which anti-Semitism functions in Tsiolkas's novel and whether it perpetuates or interrogates racism. ‘Discussions of Tsiolkas's motivations for writing…
1 November 2008 - Christos Tsiolkas and the Pornographic Logic of Commodity Capitalism
Putting Tsiolkas’s works into a wider context of international writing, the essay is concerned with ‘the fictional tradition that either deploys the pornographic, or evokes…
1 May 2010 - The Pursuit of Oblivion: In Flight from Suburbia
This essay is an exploration of the suburban imaginary in David Ireland's The Glass Canoe (1976), Bruce Dawe's Condolences of the Season (1971) and Christos…
1 November 1998 - ‘Are you weaker than a woman, weaker even than a mother?’: Abjection and Infanticide in Dead Europe and Drift
'To discuss Dead Europe with Brian Castro's Drift, I return to Kristeva's claim that abjection is always rooted in our relation to the mother…
1 October 2007 - Review of Christos Tsiolkas: The Utopian Vision, by Jessica Gildersleeve
Christos Tsiolkas: The Utopian Vision, by Jessica Gildersleeve. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2017. Web US$30.99, PDF US$41.99, E-book US$51.99, Hardback US$104.99.
19 September 2017 - Authorial Editing, Retrospective Reading and Short Story Publishing: New Approaches to Christos Tsiolkas
This essay examines Christos Tsiolkas’s short stories. Tsiolkas’s stories are less widely known compared to his novels and often unsettle the view of his writing…
28 October 2021
Contributors
- Mark Azzopardi
- Joan Kirkby
- Andrew McCann
- Andrew McCann
- Catherine Padmore
- Catherine Padmore
- Christos Tsiolkas
- Jacinta Van Den Berg