Books & Poetry
Adelaide writer Stephen Orr’s latest novel charts the complex interconnections of family and community, memory and place, in a story about the meaning of responsibility.
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.
In his imaginative and wryly witty new novel, Sincerely, Ethel Malley, Adelaide author Stephen Orr reimagines Australia’s greatest literary hoax, the Ern Malley Affair.
Adelaide author Stephen Orr has been awarded an $80,000 fellowship to work on his fictionalised reimagining of a Lutheran missionary and his son as they travel through the South Australian desert.
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.
