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1 month ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Jennie Godfrey |Geraldine Brooks |Mark Heywood
ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE Thinking back on the books I had read during 2024 I was struck by patterns I hadn’t noticed at the time I read them. I found books talking to each other, whether their authors intended it, or not. Theme clouds formed. Ideas and plots riffed off each other. Why? How? Perhaps there’s a book sprite that guides us, as we dither undecided at a bookshop, towards books that connect meaning to life.
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1 month ago | 
themonthly.com.au | Morgan Campbell |Geraldine Brooks |Margaret Simons |Jackson Ryan
Remembering lessons in the art of derailing and the power of obfuscation at a Year 10 Model United Nations day In 2007, the Year 10 students at my school in Newcastle were invited to apply for two spots as delegates to a University of Sydney Model United Nations day. Even at a selective school full of bumptious twerps, I was bumptious enough to see this as an exciting opportunity, and to get selected for our team.
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1 month ago | 
themonthly.com.au | Peter Craven |Geraldine Brooks |Margaret Simons |Jackson Ryan
Current Issue Newsletters Podcasts Login Subscribe March 2025 Arts and Letters A new production of ‘Macbeth’ starring David Tennant is an opportunity to consider if it might provide the quintessential tragic role How real is the Macbeth curse, which makes the mere articulation of the title in the theatre a source of dread?
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1 month ago | 
themonthly.com.au | David Marr |Geraldine Brooks |Margaret Simons |Anna Krien
Nothing. Six months passed without a fight. Then a year. The Quadrant crowd was silent. I’d written a book about slaughter on the Queensland frontier on a mighty scale, and the old history warriors were not out denouncing my work as lies, all lies. I thought for a time the history wars were done and dusted.
I was fooling myself.
Squabbles in little magazines are chickenfeed these days. The battlefront moved years ago to the highest levels of politics.
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1 month ago | 
themonthly.com.au | Anna Krien |Geraldine Brooks |David Marr |Morgan Campbell
Melbourne’s on-again off-again embrace of street art is now tested by the trial of the alleged artist behind ‘Pam the Bird’ “Now,” begins Jonathan Barreiro, the defence barrister leaning close to the screen as if trying to peer inside Melbourne’s Magistrate Court. On the stand, police informant senior constable Michael McCarthy twists in his seat so he can see Barreiro on the monitor. “Let’s begin with the street art char—”“I wouldn’t call it that,” McCarthy interjects. The lawyer leans back.
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2 months ago | 
newinbooks.com | Julie Ryan McGue |Chris Jones |Lynne Golodner |Geraldine Brooks
in Biography & Memoir, Books to Read if You Like..., eBook, News
6 Powerful New Biographies & Memoirs You Won’t ForgetSome stories stay with you forever. These six powerful new biographies and memoirs offer deep, inspiring, and unfiltered glimpses into extraordinary lives. From triumphs over adversity to behind-the-scenes revelations, each book delivers raw emotion, wisdom, and unforgettable experiences.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Geraldine Brooks |Rick Steves |Libba Bray |January LaVoy
AudioFile Editors Pick 8 February Audiobooks to Love
One of the top titles we're anticipating in February is a must-hear memoir about love and loss from novelist Geraldine Brooks. More to love—new audiobooks from Anne Tyler and Curtis Sittenfeld, and a fresh recording of a collection of Mary Oliver’s poems.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Geraldine Brooks
Sorry, a summary is not available for this article at this time. Please try again later. Geraldine Brooks is a novelist and former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Her books include “March,” which won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, “Horse” and the forthcoming “Memorial Days.”At an early-morning Brazilian jujitsu class in Hamburg, N.Y., sweat flies as men pair off and pounce on each other, grappling and grunting on the mats.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Michael Williams |Geraldine Brooks
Okay. Phone off, microphone on, headphones, 2024, we’re back. Where were we? Geraldine Brooks is that rarest of things: a literary bestseller. Her 2005 novel, March, a retelling of Little Women, won a Pulitzer Prize. She’s written historical novels about plagues and puritans, about the writing of the bible and, in her most recent novel Horse, about the greatest racehorse in American history. Her readers hang onto her vivid retellings of history and literature, but they also hang on her every sentence.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
sonderbooks.com | Byron Graves |Ann Patchett |Rebecca Yarros |Geraldine Brooks
January 1, 2024 Announcing my 2023 Sonderbooks Stand-outs! 2023 was a big year, when I served on the William Morris Award Committee for best young adult debut book. This list is more personal - simply books that made me happy. Every single book on this list is highly recommended. I'll try to fill in reviews that aren't posted yet soon, and I'll fill in the names of Morris Finalists after our winner is announced on January 22nd! You can find out more about my 2023 Reading Year on my blog.
