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Aug 21, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Jo Case |Aidan Coleman |Alexander Cothren |Alexander Howard |Ali Mohammad Alizadeh |Amanda Tink | +44 more
Like so many avid readers around the world, I was fascinated by the recent New York Times list of the Best Books of the 21st century, as voted by 503 authors, critics and book lovers. But like many Australians, I was disappointed to see no Australian books on the list. Even those authors who’ve made a splash in the US literary scene this century – Helen Garner, Gerald Murnane, Maria Tumarkin – didn’t get a guernsey. That’s where we come in.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
openforum.com.au | Carol Lefevre
My sharpest experience of loneliness was during the New Year period when I turned 22. Following the breakdown of a youthful and doomed marriage, I had landed in a new country, in a city, Wellington, where the only people I had contact with were at the job I’d just started. They were work acquaintances, but not yet friends. Luckily, one of them realised I would be alone over the Christmas break. She invited me to spend it with her family.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Carol Lefevre
My sharpest experience of loneliness was during the New Year period when I turned 22. Following the breakdown of a youthful and doomed marriage, I had landed in a new country, in a city, Wellington, where the only people I had contact with were at the job I’d just started. They were work acquaintances, but not yet friends. Luckily, one of them realised I would be alone over the Christmas break. She invited me to spend it with her family.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
agedcareinsite.com.au | Carol Lefevre
Carol Lefevre, University of AdelaideIf older women move through the world with a sense of being unseen, in the world of books, and especially in contemporary fiction, they have all but been erased. So pervasive is their absence, it is nearly possible to draw up a list of novels featuring older women as the main characters and plan to read them all.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
dailybulletin.com.au | Carol Lefevre
If older women move through the world with a sense of being unseen, in the world of books, and especially in contemporary fiction, they have all but been erased. So pervasive is their absence, it is nearly possible to draw up a list of novels featuring older women as the main characters and plan to read them all.
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Carol Lefevre
If older women move through the world with a sense of being unseen, in the world of books, and especially in contemporary fiction, they have all but been erased. So pervasive is their absence, it is nearly possible to draw up a list of novels featuring older women as the main characters and plan to read them all.
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
thetimes.com.au | Carol Lefevre
If older women move through the world with a sense of being unseen, in the world of books, and especially in contemporary fiction, they have all but been erased. So pervasive is their absence, it is nearly possible to draw up a list[1] of novels featuring older women as the main characters and plan to read them all.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
innerself.com | Carol Lefevre |James Clear |Charles Duhigg |BJ Fogg
Tristan Le/PexelsAnyone parenting young children will be familiar with the phrase “there’ll be tears before bedtime”. But in a quieter, more private way, the expression seems perfectly pitched to describe the largely hidden grief of ageing. Not the sharp grief that follows a bereavement (though bereavements do accumulate with the years), but a more elusive emotion. One that is, perhaps, closest to the bone-gnawing sorrow of homesickness.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
theconversation.com | Jen Webb |Alexander Howard |Alice Gorman |Anna Clark |Carl Rhodes |Carol Lefevre | +13 more
Jen Webb has received funding from the Australian Research Council. Anna Clark has received funding from the Australian Research Council. Edwina Preston has received funding from Australia Council for the Arts and Creative Victoria. She is currently employed by the Australian Education Union Heidi Norman is affiliated with the University of Technology Sydney where Graham Akhurst is also a colleague. Julienne van Loon receives funding from Creative Victoria.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
dailybulletin.com.au | Carol Lefevre
Anyone parenting young children will be familiar with the phrase “there’ll be tears before bedtime”. But in a quieter, more private way, the expression seems perfectly pitched to describe the largely hidden grief of ageing. Not the sharp grief that follows a bereavement (though bereavements do accumulate with the years), but a more elusive emotion. One that is, perhaps, closest to the bone-gnawing sorrow of homesickness.
