Ozlit

Interlude 6: the otherness of Australia

Interlude 5: some reasons for writing

Interlude 4: something of a divide

Interlude 3: Marshall and Porter, Alan and Hal

Interlude 2: as far apart as ever

Interlude 1: two family sagas

9. The un-loving of Coonardoo

9. Twyborn? Tri-born? Or some lives as they might have happened?

8. Keeping it in the family: one way to interpret the past

8. A master of prose because he knows he shares it

7. The teller of tales presents The Fortunes of Richard Mahony

7. The living are few, Frank tells us, But The Dead Are Many

6. Private Manning & Private Bourne: Her Privates We

6. How the world failed the League of Nations, then began again

5. Most theatrical when most personal

5. Another journey with another Frank

4. Questions of scale: a term in Geneva, starting in 1926

4. Judith Wright; the basis of our nation?

3. Habe Dank! A writer’s release

3. Capricornia

20. Singing the country: a first look at Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

2. Strangely humble: The Tree of Man by Patrick White

2. Jack and George: who owns a life?

19. Possession, dispossession, what about re-possession?

19. An afterword

18. The goddess allows herself to be seen. But not forever; Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus (1980)

18. A desert song, or is it? Voss by Patrick White

17. What tree is that? Eucalyptus by Murray Bail

17. Tirra Lirra by the River

16. Story and the effacement of story: Beverley Farmer’s The Bone House

16. A place too big: Australia as a collection of regions

15. Style: often mentioned, less commonly analysed

15. A ring that’s lost; is there something better?

14. Good, better, best/Never let it rest. Till your good is better/And your better best.

14. Tomorrow and Tomorrow: Sydney burns, and a future is revealed

13. Names galore, and the need for disguise

13. The Eye of the Storm: but what is the storm?

12. Instead of mockery, a many-sided scrutiny

12. A broth of gems; the sky without mother

11. Where certainty lies; his father’s world

11. A Kangaroo still hopping around in our minds

10. Sally Morgan’s My Place

10. Judith Wright: from The Moving Image to Fourth Quarter

1. Unfortunate affairs

1. Gippsland’s first great book