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2015’s Best Killings

Somehow no one rumbled that I snuck onto a Killings columnist roster that otherwise contained nothing but champs. Me and the champs round out the year with our… Read more “2015’s Best Killings”

December 21, 2015December 23, 2015 by jamestierney

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas’ Suspiria

  My final column for Kill Your Darlings​ is an interview with the inestimable Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. Her fine critical intelligence and quick infectious wit will be familiar… Read more “Alexandra Heller-Nicholas’ Suspiria”

November 16, 2015 by jamestierney

Miles Allinson’s Fever of Animals

   My take on Miles Allinson’s impressive but significantly flawed novel

October 19, 2015 by jamestierney

Fiona Wright’s Small Acts of Disappearence

  ‘Wright’s use of the personal pronoun throughout is grounded and clarifying – weighted to illumination and analysis rather than expression.’  My take on Fiona Wright’s Small Acts… Read more “Fiona Wright’s Small Acts of Disappearence”

September 21, 2015 by jamestierney

Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts

  My take on Maggie Nelson’s genre-busting memoir The Argonauts, in which I argue for the overthrow of the narrative. Incoherently, of course. 

August 24, 2015 by jamestierney

The Post-Imperial Pet Shop Boys

More than thirty years ago, UK electropop duo Pet Shop Boys surveyed their present pop moment and asked themselves, ‘Do you want to be rich?’ Unfortunately for… Read more “The Post-Imperial Pet Shop Boys”

July 31, 2015September 9, 2015 by jamestierney

She Calls the Shots: the provocation of violent women

‘…questions like ‘How could she?’ and ‘Why didn’t she leave?’ keep rattling around like knives in a drawer.’ Me on Virginie Despentes, Rihanna and Maggie Nelson up… Read more “She Calls the Shots: the provocation of violent women”

July 27, 2015July 29, 2015 by jamestierney

Reviewing and the long way round (to anger)

My Emerging Writers Festival criticism paper has been published by the good people at The Lifted Brow. There are very few journals as committed to working with… Read more “Reviewing and the long way round (to anger)”

July 1, 2015July 1, 2015 by jamestierney

Bernard Cohen’s The Antibiography of Robert F. Menzies

Just back from the inaugural presentation of the Russell prize for humorous writing at the NSW State Library. It was a tremendous honour to be asked to… Read more “Bernard Cohen’s The Antibiography of Robert F. Menzies”

June 25, 2015July 1, 2015 by jamestierney

Lisa Gorton’s The Life of Houses

‘A Novel of Longer Exhalations’ My take on Lisa Gorton’s very fine novel The Life of Houses is now up at Killings.

June 24, 2015June 24, 2015 by jamestierney

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