Jack Callil

Mar 6, 2025 | theguardian.com | Jack Callil

A holiday, with its siren’s call of renewal, its graspings at something outside of us, is fertile ground for fiction; a new environment tends to accentuate people’s natures. A vacation in Indonesia was the backdrop to Luke Horton’s compelling debut novel, The Fogging, which traced the slow unravelling of a couple’s relationship. Now, in Time Together, a seemingly relaxing beach trip probes at ageing, parenthood, relationships and grief.

Mar 5, 2025 | crikey.com.au | Jack Callil

Mere minutes into Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress — in which the US president declared “America is back” before praising his administration’s directives and the actions of Elon Musk — Democratic Congressman Al Green stood up, waved his cane and shouted, “You have no mandate to cut Medicaid!” As reported by The New York Times, the interjection of Congressman Green, aged 78, defies the entreaties that members refrain from disruptions, and was quickly drowned out by...

Nov 21, 2024 | msn.com | Jack Callil

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Nov 21, 2024 | theguardian.com | Jack Callil

In a 2009 interview with Michelle de Kretser, who would go on to win the Miles Franklin Literary award – twice – the author characterised her own work as “questing, jesting, testing”. It’s an apt description for her seventh and most experimental novel yet, Theory & Practice: a form-melding book contending with colonialism, the disharmony that can arise between our purported ideals and how we live, the depths of jealousy and shame, and motherhood and the maternal figures who shape us.

Nov 3, 2024 | msn.com | Sian Cain |Jack Callil |Jenny Valentish |Yvonne Lam |Catriona Menzies-Pike |Nigel Featherstone | +1 more

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