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Alexis Wright

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Favourite Australian Novels of the twenty-first century

October 2019, no. 415
2019 ABR FAN Poll

Ten years after the first ABR FAN Poll, the second one was limited to Australian novels published since 2000 (though we received votes for recent classics such as 1984, Voss, and Monkey Grip). When voting closed in mid-September, Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North emerged ...

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News from the Editor's Desk - May 2018

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May 2018, no. 401

News from the Editors Desk

Tracker: Stories of Tracker Tilmouth by Alexis Wright

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January–February 2018, no. 398
Michael Winkler reviews 'Tracker: Stories of Tracker Tilmouth' by Alexis Wright

In Alexis Wright’s novel Carpentaria (2006), Girlie claims, ‘If you ever want to find out about anything in your vicinity, you have to talk to the mad people.’ There are a lot of mad people in Wright’s biography of Aboriginal activist, thinker, and provocateur ‘Tracker’ Tilmouth. He is probably the maddest of all, in the ...

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News from the Editor's Desk - January-February 2018

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January–February 2018, no. 398

With this double issue, Australian Book Review enters its fortieth year. ABR was of course founded in Adelaide in 1961 as a monthly magazine. Max Harris and Rosemary Wighton edited the first series, whose final, quarterly appearances lapsed in 1974. The second series was created in 1978 under the auspices of ...

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The Swan Book by Alexis Wright

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September 2013, no. 354
Jen Webb reviews 'The Swan Book' by Alexis Wright

‘Without an indigenous literature, people can remain alien in their own soil,’ wrote Miles Franklin, initiator of an Australian literary prize that has been awarded to just two Aboriginal writers: Kim Scott for Benang in 2000 and That Deadman Dance in 2011; and Alexis Wright for Carpentaria in 2007. Franklin, of course, didn’t mean I ...

Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

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October 2006, no. 285
Kate McFadyen reviews 'Carpentaria' by Alexis Wright

There is a mesmerising scene in Carpentaria when Joseph Midnight is asked if he has seen the fugitive Will Phantom, a young local Aboriginal man who is single-handedly waging a guerrilla war against a large lead ore mining company. He eyes the questioner and astutely spots him as a ‘Southern blackfella …

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Snake Cradle: Autobiography of a black woman by Roberta Sykes

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November 1997, no. 196
Alexis Wright reviews 'Snake Cradle: Autobiography of a black woman' by Roberta Sykes

Snake Cradle: Autobiography of a black woman is the first published volume of a three-part life story from Australia’s renowned black rights activist Dr Roberta Sykes. In Snake Cradle, Sykes chronicles the first seventeen years of her life in Queensland and gives us a generously open story in her legendary powerful and thought-provoking style.

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