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Nov 4, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Jane Gleeson-White
By Jane Gleeson-White November 5, 2024 — 12.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. NATUREThe Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common ParadiseOlivia LaingPicador, $44.99“I dream that I am in a house, and discover a door I didn’t know was there.
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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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Jun 18, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Jane Gleeson-White
To allow herself to scan her diaries quickly, Heti put them in a spreadsheet, sorted the sentences alphabetically, then spent a decade editing them. The result is a volume of 163 densely packed pages of sentences with no paragraph breaks that scroll through the alphabet, capturing moments of life with revelatory frankness and immediacy. It opens: "A book about how difficult it is to change, why we don't want to, and what is going on in our brain.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Jane Gleeson-White
By Jane Gleeson-White June 18, 2024 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. MEMOIRAlphabetical DiariesSheila Heti, Allen & Unwin, $24.99Sheila Heti’s new book Alphabetical Diaries is as its name suggests: a book composed of sentences taken from her diaries, arranged alphabetically and assembled in 26 chapters from A to Z.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
scroll.in | Jane Gleeson-White
Rachel Cusk’s new novel conjures myriad acts of creation – of lives and of art. It explores the violence creation entails and the possibilities it opens. Her twelfth novel, Parade is concerned with artists, with mothers and children, and with place: material, psychological, historical, cosmic. This is familiar terrain. But, as ever with Cusk’s writing in all its forms – fiction, memoir, essay – she renders the familiar strange in ways that force us to see it anew.
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Jane Gleeson-White |UNSW Canberra |UNSW Sydney
By Jane Gleeson-White, Adjunct Lecturer, English and Creative Writing, UNSW Canberra, UNSW Sydney
Rachel Cusk’s twelfth novel is strange, compelling and ferociously intelligent. It explores artists, mothers and daughters, and the ‘blankness of spirituality’ on the other side of gender. Read complete article© The Conversation
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Jane Gleeson-White
Rachel Cusk’s new novel conjures myriad acts of creation – of lives and of art. It explores the violence creation entails and the possibilities it opens. Her twelfth novel, Parade is concerned with artists, with mothers and children, and with place: material, psychological, historical, cosmic. This is familiar terrain. But, as ever with Cusk’s writing in all its forms – fiction, memoir, essay – she renders the familiar strange in ways that force us to see it anew.
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
thetimes.com.au | Jane Gleeson-White |UNSW Canberra |UNSW Sydney
Rachel Cusk’s new novel conjures myriad acts of creation – of lives and of art. It explores the violence creation entails and the possibilities it opens. Her twelfth novel, Parade[1] is concerned with artists, with mothers and children, and with place: material, psychological, historical, cosmic. This is familiar terrain. But, as ever with Cusk’s writing in all its forms – fiction, memoir, essay – she renders the familiar strange in ways that force us to see it anew.
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May 10, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Jane Gleeson-White
Birch has a PhD in history and has taught Australian and Aboriginal history. He turned to other forms of storytelling after becoming disenchanted with his discipline during the "history wars" of the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 2006 he published his first work of fiction, Shadowboxing, interlinked stories inspired by his childhood in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, and has since continued to write and publish fiction.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Jane Gleeson-White |Don Watson |Elizabeth Finkel |Sarah Krasnostein
An environmental lawyer turned activist is installing street furniture in inner-suburban Sydney that discreetly turns food waste into compost Michael Mobbs has a big dream: “I want to end cafe and residential food waste in Chippendale by 2024.” An environmental lawyer turned water activist and street gardener, Mobbs is bringing change to the streets of the inner-Sydney suburb that has been his home since 1978.
