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The Australian edition of the iconic British weekly magazine, now with its own website.
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News
Sad girl story: Sophie, Standing There, by Meg Mason, reviewed
1+ week, 3+ day ago (273+ words) Sophie Pattison, 37, is not in a good place: heartbroken, childless, mid-divorce from ‘arsehole’ Paul, with her self-esteem and bank balance low. As her best friend Emma says: ‘You have a lot of love and nobody to take it out on....
From housemaid to monster: The Mare, by Angharad Hampshire, reviewed
3+ week, 3+ day ago (318+ words) In 1957, Russell Ryan, an American is holidaying alone in Austria. There he meets a young woman called Hermine Braunsteiner. They fall in love and Russell takes Hermine back to America where they marry and set up home in the suburbs....
An aggravated splendour
1+ mon, 20+ hour ago (159+ words) He could quote Eliot with an expert familiarity but he could also produce an easy effect of high seriousness when he turned to the later Neil Young. We will not see his like again. They will look back on Rod…...
A heady cocktail of coquetry and extortion: The Millionaire Waltz, by Anthony Quinn, reviewed
1+ mon, 21+ hour ago (369+ words) The Spectator Australia Edie Greenlaw, model, actress and socialite in 1920s London, is drawn into a case of homosexual blackmail after trying to help a friend Anthony Quinn’s deliciously dark, theatrical-set murder mystery Curtain Call announced the former film critic as…...
A house of secrets: Where Are the Kings, by Donal Ryan, reviewed
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (450+ words) The Spectator Australia When his mother’s suicide and father’s insanity leave young Jack effectively orphaned, other family members take him in. But will he always be haunted by whispers of scandal and ‘bad blood’? A typical adolescent, Jack Fristensky is…...
An exercise in murder
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (301+ words) We sometimes forget the High German culture which was brought to America and had such a dazzling effect there. Einstein warned FDR about nuclear weapons, which led to the atom bomb and Oppenheimer saying, in horrified recognition of his role…...
Whimsical defence mechanisms: Sail Away Land, by Ben Pester, reviewed
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (474+ words) The Spectator Australia Facing nightmarish scenarios, Pester’s characters respond with twee, online-inflected stoicism intended to soften an unforgiving world A spectre is haunting England in the surreal tales assembled in Ben Pester’s Sail Away Land, the follow-up to his debut…...
Revelling in the music of words
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (665+ words) The Spectator Australia Revelling in the music of words Michael Cunningham helps us appreciate the ‘cello-like flow’ of clauses or the hiss of an ‘s’ in other contemporary authors’ works, while turning a critical eye on his own novels, too…...
New York crime caper: Cool Machine, by Colson Whitehead, reviewed
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (309+ words) Cool Machine, the final novel in Colson Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy (following Harlem Shuffle and Crook Manifesto), is another tour de force and a fitting conclusion to the Uptown peregrinations of his endearing protagonist Ray Carney, a successful Harlem furniture salesman…...
The past yields up its secrets: The Red Mouth, by Sheila Armstrong, reviewed
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (485+ words) The Spectator Australia The dark power of an Irish peat bog lies at the heart of Armstrong’s story, with ancient bones revealing a mysterious, violent history Sheila Armstrong’s strange and beautiful novel has 12 chapters, each named for a month of…...