by NRB | 2 Nov 2023 | Non-fiction |
David Marr’s account of his ancestors’ involvement with the Native Police and the murder of Aboriginal people is distressing and important. Several years ago, one of David Marr’s older relatives informed him that his great-great-grandfather Reginald...
by NRB | 1 May 2020 | Extracts, Non-fiction |
What makes a biographer? How do you approach writing a biography? Having run an extract from a biography last week – Cathy Perkins’s The Shelf Life of Zora Cross – it seems fitting this week to explore the work of a biographer with an extract from award-winning writer...
by NRB | 10 Sep 2019 | Non-fiction |
These personal essays in Growing Up Queer in Australia are full of insight and self-reflection. The queer community can take great pride in the quality of the stories and the voices that represent it. This is a very polished collection of stories, perhaps not...
by NRB | 28 Sep 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Peter Corris, the ‘Godfather of Australian crime fiction’, died in his sleep on 30 August 2018. His Godfather columns have been part of the Newtown Review of Books from the beginning, and we feel his loss keenly. Following are some tributes that were given at his...
by NRB | 20 Jul 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Evan Whitton, who died this week aged 90, was editor of the National Times when I worked at the paper in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The winner of five Walkley Awards for investigative journalism and the Graham Perkins Journalist of the Year Award for his coverage...
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