On David Malouf by Nam Le Australian Authors like China before it

like China before it

The hold over our lives by Gates

If the high priests of economics want the credit for Australia’s economic growth over the last three decades

I adore this book

On David Malouf by Nam Le Australian Authors like China before itHere was a very much alive half Lebanese writer (from provincial Brisbane, no less) producing English language writing of the very first order The poetry was in the prose; it stayed and sprung its rhythms, chorded its ideas, concentrated its images. Every other novel claims to be written in poetic prose; the real thing, when you come across it, is actually shocking. Nam Le takes the reader on a thrilling intellectual ride in this sharp, bold essay.