AustLit logo

AustLit

y separately published work icon The Times Literary Supplement periodical issue  
Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 17 April 2020 of The Times Literary Supplement est. 1902 The Times Literary Supplement
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Beliefs Mattered Then : A Brutal Imagining of the Early Christian Lives in Damascus by Chris Tsiolkas, Vernon White , single work review
— Review of Damascus Christos Tsiolkas , 2019 single work novel ;

'This novel explodes into life with one of the most arresting openings since Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love. A girl is stoned to death. In many respects it is unlike McEwan’s description of a man falling to his death: the shock is not wrung out in the same slow motion; it is not, primarily, a narrative about the slippery nature of knowledge, ambiguity, responsibility. Instead it is a stark and unambiguous depiction of human brutality towards the despised, the utter failure of empathy. But the same generative power is there. The image sets a course, and a tone, for the rest of the book.' (Introduction)

Are You a Fox or a Wolf? Ferocious and Brutal Reckonings in The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld, Beejay Silcox , single work review
— Review of The Bass Rock Evie Wyld , 2020 single work novel ;

'In the Firth of Forth in Scotland’s east, a hulking lump of volcanic rock rises steeply from the water, an “igneous intrusion”. Known as Bass Rock, it’s the kind of geological anomaly that inspires anthropomorphizing. It menaces; it waits. In Evie Wyld’s new novel, The Bass Rock, the guano-white monolith has watched on for centuries as women have come to harm, murdered under its imperious shadow. It feels as if some dark power is loose – a vicious bedevilment – but Wyld’s point is far more terrifying: the rock has simply borne witness to ordinary life.' (Introduction)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Last amended 13 May 2020 11:52:21
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X