Marie Matteson
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Review — 27 Jul 2015
House of Cards: Season 3
House of Cards Season 3 begins not at Episode 1 but at Chapter 27. It has become apparent that House of Cards is not a show structured season by season…
Review — 27 Jul 2015
Long Bay by Eleanor Limprecht
Long Bay immediately summons the spectre of imprisonment. Long Bay Gaol is to Sydney as Pentridge is to Melbourne and the shadow of the gaol hangs over the recreation of…
Review — 27 Jan 2015
The Fall: Season 2
The second series of The Fall picks up 10 days after the end of series one, so if you haven’t seen that I’ll wait while you go and watch 5…
Blog post — 12 Oct 2014
Why Ali Smith should win the 2014 Man Booker Prize
Tim Parks wrote recently in the New York Review of Books that the social value of a novel is the conversation it can start. He went on to point out…
Review — 22 Jul 2014
Hild by Nicola Griffith
We open on three-year-old Hild, lying, ear to the ground, absorbing the cadence of her world: birds, trees, earth. She is disturbed, though not frightened, by the arrival of her…
Blog post — 10 Jun 2014
What I Loved: Girl meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis by Ali Smith
As I was texting my sister, asking her to lend me her copy of Girl Meets Boy so I could write this column, she was, in that moment, handing it…
Blog post — 19 Sep 2013
Why you should watch Friday Night Lights
Bookseller Marie Matteson tells us about the secret Readings
A few years ago Lorrie Moore wrote a wonderful piece for The New York Review of Books about the television show…