Commentary
Artists provoke and offend, but they also liberate us and help us understand who we are and where we’re going. Writer Stephen Orr makes a case for significant new investment in South Australian artists and cultural institutions.
Books & Poetry
Adelaide writer Stephen Orr channels his inner Year 9 in this back-to-school report on his European summer holiday.
English is a mongrel language but without the stories that can be woven from it, how do we know how to live?
Adelaide author Stephen Orr’s latest novel is autobiographical, set in suburban Australia in the 1980s where a young boy struggles to make sense of the world and figure out what he wants to do with his life.
Mexican writer Juan Rulfo’s dark fable Pedro Páramo ignores boundaries between the living and the dead – but is more than just a ghost story. It is, writes Stephen Orr, a book that created a genre.
Ernst Haffner’s novel Blutsbrüder (Blood Brothers), set in the shadows of Berlin, was burned by the Nazis a year after publication. While the lost gem has been rediscovered, the fate of its author remains a mystery, writes Stephen Orr.
