A very nice review by guest writer Lyndon Riggall at Literary Minded . An excerpt is below: The story itself is a beautifully written and il...

Back in August, I appeared with DBC Pierre at the Melbourne Writers Festival in a discussion on 'Modern Dystopia' . This session was...

I shall be one of the participants in the symposium Digital Editing, Digital Humanities , which takes place in the Woolley Common Room, Wool...

The talk above is by Laura Forde . For more on the same topic, see this blog post by Andrea Hyde . I have been watching the Godard films und...

[ Originally posted on Literary Minded :] In the Summer of 1989, I left my father’s home, which was never my home, not after my mother died....

I had about forty-five minutes inside the church of Santa Maria Formosa before the light went. I shot eight frames (I think), of which this...

Tree of Codes is Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, which is a 'treated' edition of The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz , i...

The podcast of my talk on the design of Five Wounds , originally delivered to the Centre for the Book at Monash University on 20 Oct., is no...

This weekend I shall be participating in the Sydney Freecon, organised by Garry Dalrymple of the Sydney Futurians . There will be several ev...

The latest issue of the academic e-journal Transnational Literature includes a review of Five Wounds , written by Aliese Millington . An ex...

  This is an interview I did recently for the Wheeler Centre on Five Wounds . Thanks to George Dunford for setting it up.

[ Originally posted on the Melbourne Writer's Festival blog :] At this hour of the morning,’ he said, addressing nobody in particular, ‘...

The blog Literary Minded has now posted a short essay I wrote about watching Christine Edzard's film of Little Dorrit . An extract is b...

Next week I shall be giving a talk sponsored by the Centre for the Book at Monash University on the design of Five Wounds . The talk will d...

VE1 Tristram Shandy from Visual Editions on Vimeo . Visual Editions manifesto: We think that books should be as visually interesting as t...

For the effortless way in which it integrates Biblical stories and idioms into a resolutely secular narrative. And for this genius theologic...

I saw A Matter of Life and Death on television in the 80s, and finally on a cinema screen in repertory in the early 90s at the GFT in Glasg...

A very positive review at the blog Smṛti-Śruti (is that Icelandic?), whose author has done lots of research on Dan, Zoe and I. An extract b...

Apathy Air Travel

From 2-6 September, I shall be attending, and participating in, the annual Worldcon meeting of the World Science Fiction Society , which thi...

Franz Kafka Melbourne Dinosaurs Their First Computer Listening (including my comments on the ending of Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar )

Federico Fellini Dreams Mornings (including my commentary on an excerpt from a short story by Italo Calvino)

Above is the audio file of my recent interview on 'The Comic Spot' , with John Retallick and Jo Waite, broadcast on 15 July 2010, on...

The 1970s, Part 1 ; the 1970s, Part 2 Alcohol

I shall be appearing at this year's Melbourne Writers Festival , on a panel with Booker-Prize winning author DBC Pierre , whose new nove...