Ellena Savage

Sep 30, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Ellena Savage |Tim Winton |Cate Kennedy |Daniel James

Current IssueNewslettersPodcastsLoginSubscribeOctober 2024Arts & Letters Sarah Manguso’s novel about a woman staying in a terrible relationship seems resigned to male dominance, while Vigdis Hjorth’s gets at more complex realities Novel one: Jane is a writer; John, an artist. Jane and John fall in love and get married. What could go wrong? Jane’s writing career begins to take off. Go, Jane! John’s art career… well, it doesn’t, and he redirects his energy towards starting a company.

Nov 29, 2023 | meanjin.com.au | Ellena Savage

On the last day of a week’s holiday in Berlin, I took the U-Bahn to Hackescher Markt, a shopping neighbourhood in Mitte, the soulless commercial centre of the otherwise culturally verdurous city. In the tourism literature, Hackescher Markt is a kooky hub of local designers and boutique stores, but in practice it’s a cluster of chain stores, construction sites and dingy malls.

Oct 13, 2023 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Ellena Savage

She toed the company line and told people it was an “honour” to counsel the dying. No one had instructed Andrea to say this, but it’s what people wanted to hear. She considered that it was part of her job to counsel the living against their fear of the enormity of death. Long before Andrea worked in the death business, she studied art. She had wanted to become an art teacher.