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Full Circle: A search for the world that comes next by Scott Ludlam
by Dominic Kelly •
The Winter Road: A story of legacy, land and a killing at Croppa Creek by Kate Holden
by Cameron Muir •
The Life of a Spy: An education in truth, lies and power by Rod Barton
by Andrew West •
On Thomas Keneally by Stan Grant & With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant
by Declan Fry •
Few books blur the line between beauty and ugliness more than Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice (1912). The novella follows the ageing writer Aschenbach, whose absurd over-refinement – born in part of repressed homosexuality – is dismantled by Tadzio, a beautiful boy he encounters on holiday in Venice. His obsession with Tadzio represents the displacement of mortality (Aschenbach will soon succumb to cholera) through a wilful surrender to decadence and decay.
... (read more)On the Line: Notes from a factory by Joseph Ponthus, translated by Stephanie Smee
by Valentina Gosetti •