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Reading Aurelian Craiutu’s “Why Not Moderation?” in a moment of uncertain polarisation and partisanship
Or, ‘Political labels be damn’
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Matthew Lamb

October 2024

Notes on the question of Australia’s Poet Laureate
Or, the first concern of a cultural diplomat
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Matthew Lamb

August 2024

'Being shown the instruments of torture'
Or, the art and craft of biography
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Matthew Lamb

July 2024

It Speaks: Biographers in Conversation
A Conversation on Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths
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Matthew Lamb

June 2024

Notes on Commensality
Or, why we should sit together more around a kitchen table
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Matthew Lamb
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November 2023

‘When the facts conflict with the legend’
How does a biographer balance storytelling with the truth?
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Matthew Lamb
The Doors of Psychoanalysis
Or, Standing on the Outside Looking In
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Matthew Lamb

September 2023

On Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths
Reflections of an accidental biographer
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Matthew Lamb
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May 2023

Northrop Frye’s Four Levels of Literary Meaning
Or, the nuts and bolts of reading
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Matthew Lamb
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November 2022

The Endurance of Things
On the literary imagination of Randolph Stow
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Matthew Lamb

October 2022

‘He waxes desperate with imagination’
Or, re-reading “Hamlet” with Margreta de Grazia and Luiz Costa Lima
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Matthew Lamb
A Substacker Reads Luiz Costa Lima in Australia and Bursts into Tears (with apologies to László F. Földényi)
On mimesis, fiction, and the control of the imaginary
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Matthew Lamb
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