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A difficult writer
‘Lonely Country’ is the term Arnhem landers use for empty or uncared-for places. Sometimes the custodians have died. In other cases, the land is simply too difficult to get to or inhabit. Whatever the reason, Lonely Country brings sadness. There is no one to burn the bush or manage it; no one to call out to the spirits of the old people who remain on their Country, isolated from the living.
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On Patrick White’s Dilemmas: A personal essay
by Vrasidas Karalis
Brandl & Schlesinger, $26.99, 224 pp
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