Daniel Stein, Interpreter (2012), by Ludmila Ulitskaya, translated by Arch...
It is my pleasure to introduce to you a very special Guest Reviewer. A poet, essayist, playwright and novelist, Subhash Jaireth lives in Canberra. His wonderful novel After Love was released by...
View ArticleSpinoza’s Overcoat, Travels with Writers and Poets, (2020) by Subhash Jaireth
A week or so ago, Ivor Indyk drew attention in an essay published by the Sydney Review of Books to the problem that bedevils writers and publishers of books in markets that don’t value the unusual or...
View ArticleIncantations (2016), by Subhash Jaireth
Incantations is such a perfect accompaniment to a trip to the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, I hope they have it on sale in their bookshop. (If they do, Sue from Whispering Gums will be buying...
View ArticleAflame (2021), by Subhash Jaireth
There are three parts to this slim volume from Subhash Jaireth. The first is a prose piece called ‘Moscow—1974: Oratorio in Two Voices’. This is a curious title because an oratorio has a large cast of...
View ArticleTo Silence, Three Autobiographies (2011), by Subhash Jaireth
Subhash Jaireth is one of my favourite authors. Everything he writes is rich with insights. To Silence, Three Autobiographies (2011) is just such a work of art. Through the gently detailed lives of...
View ArticleGeorge Orwell’s Elephant and Other Essays (2024), by Subhash Jaireth
At the end of the review of a previous book by Subhash Jaireth, I quoted this excerpt because it encapsulates how I respond to his work: A calmness settles over me and I begin to recognise that...
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