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The Memory of Salt by Alice Melike Ülgezer
[[alice-mielke1]]The Memory of Salt, by Alice Melike Ülgezer, is a rare work of fiction that engages with multiculturalism not just as an idea or principle, but as a total and inescapable experience of life.
One half of the…
Pilgrimage by Jacinta Halloran
[[jacinta1]]When her mother is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Celeste, 49, prepares herself to assume the role of a carer. A paediatrician, she is willing to arm them both with the logic of science: of cold medical fact, PEGs and…
Tarcutta Wake by Josephine Rowe
Josephine Rowe is a Melbourne writer who has been quietly accumulating adulation for some years now. In truth, Tarcutta Wake is her fourth collection of very short stories, although the first two were self-published and were more like artworks than…
Antarctica: A Biography by David Day
[[david-day4]]Chapter 11 of this epic biography of the frozen continent is titled ‘This bloody flag-raising business’ and this sentiment just about sums up the content of David Day’s latest work of historical investigation.
Beginning in the 1770s with Captain Cook’s…
Norwegian By Night by Derek B. Miller
[[derek_miller1]]This book was smartly discovered by Henry Rosenbloom, pal of Readings and publisher at Scribe, so Australian audiences have a chance to read it before the rest of the world joins the party.
Miller is an American living in Norway…
American Stories: Tales of Hope and Anger by Michael Brissenden
[[michael-brissenden1]]ABC TV’s Michael Brissenden has written a sharply observed and hugely entertaining collection of essays on contemporary American life.
He covers the expected turf – healthcare, the war on drugs, asylum seekers, race relations – but delivers much more than…
Winter Journal by Paul Auster
In a piece for The Paris Review, the interviewer comments that in Paul Auster’s novel Leviathan, the lead character Peter Aaron not only bears Auster’s initials, but is also married to a woman whose name is that of…
Carry Me Back by Old Crow Medicine Show
Who loves a hootenanny?Well batten down thehatches, folks, because oneof the best old-timey stringbands around are back intown and my how we’vemissed them.
Recorded at the legendarySound Emporium studios in Nashville,Carry Me Back is the fourth studio albumfrom the…
The Tel Aviv Session by The Toure-Raichel Collective
Every now and againmusicians who have neverplayed before get together tohave a musical conversationand create sound magic.
This is one of those very rarespontaneous collaborations that comes alongand exceeds all expectations (Ry Cooder andVishwa Mohan Bhatt’s Meeting by…
Traveler by Jerry Douglas
Jerry Douglas’s Dobroskills have made him thetop player in Nashville.His distinctive tone hasgraced some 1800 sessionsand been featured on thewonderful BBC series Transatlantic Sessions,fusing Celtic and country. Douglas is also agigging musician with his own band andhas been a…
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