Ruby J Murray
Suzanne Falkiner reviews 'The Biographer’s Lover' by Ruby J. Murray
Suzanne Falkiner
Thursday, 23 August 2018
A short way into this intriguing novel, author Ruby J. Murray cites Virginia Woolf on the subject of biography. According to Murray’s protagonist, Woolf called it ‘a plodding art’: ‘Every life, she wrote, should open with a list of facts … a stately parade of the real. Births, deaths and marriages ...
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Published in
September 2018, no. 404
How much does the average Australian know about Indonesia? Not the tourist version, with its resorts and beaches and lacklustre nasi goreng – but the wider culture, history, and people. At best, Indonesia is a tantalising enigma to most Australians. At worst, it is ignored – a vast nation about which we neither know nor care, despite its importance as one of our closest neighbours.
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Published in
May 2012, no. 341