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3 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Helen Elliott
By Helen Elliott April 2, 2025 — 12.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. FICTIONEurotrashChristian Kracht (Translated by Daniel Bowles)Serpent’s Tail, $26.99Do you love the term Eurotrash? I do. I love it because of the intricacy of the paradox encased in the two parts, Euro and trash. Two things never destined to be coupled?
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
watoday.com.au | Helen Elliott
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Helen Elliott
By Helen Elliott December 18, 2024 — 12.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. FICTIONWingNikki GemmellFourth Estate, $26.95Cin’s mother is Mig. Tamsin’s mother is Tink. Willa’s mother is Cara. Ella’s mother is Beth. Pup is the school administrator, a bloke. The head of the school is called Sarge by her staff.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
ftadviser.com | Helen Elliott |Colin Chapman
The renowned journalist, broadcaster and author, who after retirement from the FT Group in 2001 had been living in Australia, died at the weekend. Chapman was the founder of Financial Adviser - the print title that became FT Adviser - back in 1987. He began work in February 1987, on the first edition of Financial Adviser, which came out in April.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Helen Elliott |Tim Winton |Cate Kennedy |Daniel James
Five women artists come together to challenge the traditional art world’s understanding of “emotional” as female Art, of course, is language, but Mithu Sen is unusually mouthy for a visual artist. Part of her exhibition in Melbourne at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) last year was the word “Unacknowledgement”. Beneath that: “I hereby sincerely declare that I will be withdrawing from charades of inclusion and artifices of language through mOTHERTONGUE.” Charades of inclusion?
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Sep 30, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Helen Elliott |Tim Winton |Cate Kennedy |Daniel James
Five women artists come together to challenge the traditional art world’s understanding of “emotional” as female Art, of course, is language, but Mithu Sen is unusually mouthy for a visual artist. Part of her exhibition in Melbourne at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) last year was the word “Unacknowledgement”. Beneath that: “I hereby sincerely declare that I will be withdrawing from charades of inclusion and artifices of language through mOTHERTONGUE.” Charades of inclusion?
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Helen Elliott |Stan Grant |James Bradley |Katherine Wilson
The English author’s latest, typically vexing Jackson Brodie adventure is a cosy-crime investigation of a missing painting Started early, took my cat. Reading the new Jackson Brodie adventure – Brodie being Kate Atkinson’s droll, complicated and hot private investigator. Back in bed. It’s zero outside. The bird baths were frozen when the cat and I went out at dawn.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Helen Elliott
FICTIONThe Echoes Evie WyldVintage, $34.99 Trauma. Trauma. Trauma. The word once had clear, direct meaning as a physical wound. It still does in medical lexicons. Now it has been captured. By whom? Could be everyone? I hear it and read it daily as adjective and noun, both abstract and proper, and verb. Not often as adverb. Not yet. The reliably good writer Evie Wyld has examined trauma in every one of her prize-winning novels.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Helen Elliott
By Helen Elliott August 2, 2024 — 11.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. FICTIONThe EchoesEvie WyldVintage, $34.99Trauma. Trauma. Trauma. The word once had clear, direct meaning as a physical wound. It still does in medical lexicons. Now it has been captured. By whom? Could be everyone? I hear it and read it daily as adjective and noun, both abstract and proper, and verb. Not often as adverb. Not yet.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Helen Elliott
Save Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it FICTIONThe Desert Knows Her NameLia Hills, Affirm Press, $24.99 Rivers, land, trees - nature itself now has the legal right to sue any party that intends to, or has, damaged it. Not de facto, not through groups acting on their behalf, but through the act of interpretation. It is an extreme act of interpretation because one party works in a spoken language; the other works in the silence of immanence.
