Books at the Sydney Morning Herald
Best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert talks about her favourite books.
KAREN HARDY About four years ago author Tom Rob Smith received a telephone call from his mother.
Thuy On On the shelf this week: Close Up, Mandela and When Mr Dog Bites.
Reviewer: MARK THOMAS In a chronological survey of Australian culture, why is 1960 omitted, as are 2001 and 2011?
Cameron Woodhead With her debut novel For Today I Am A Boy, Chinese-Canadian writer Kim Fu has attracted comparisons to Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex and to bestselling author Amy Tan. They're big, slightly facile claims, which this delicate queer bildungsroman at least partly justifies.
Owen Richardson The immigrant misadventures of earlier works are replaced by an ambition to reveal the pain behind an author's humour.
Juliette Hughes 'All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet from off our necks …'' (Sarah Grimke, letter to the president of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1838).
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