Will Heyward
Will Heyward is a former Readings bookseller
Review — 24 Feb 2013
Going Down Swinging No. 33
Disclaimer: I always forget how difficult I find reviewing literary journals, especially when the review in question is of a publication as well written and edited as Going Down Swinging…
Blog post — 3 Feb 2013
What I Loved: A Death In The Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Depending on the continent on which you purchase your reading material, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s most recently published work will either be available as a novel entitled A Death in the…
Review — 1 Apr 2013
Here and Now by Paul Auster & J.M. Coetzee
There’s a moment towards the end of Here and Now: Letters 2008 – 2011 when Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee complain about the misfortunes of being publically interviewed.
Coetzee…
Blog post — 9 Sep 2012
Q&A with David Marr, author of Quarterly Essay 47: Political Animal
David Marr chats with Will Heyward about
Your essay characterises a young Tony Abbott as enthralled by an ideology that, ‘deplored the pill, homosexuality, rampant materialism, married women in the…
Review — 29 Jul 2012
The Memory of Salt by Alice Melike Ülgezer
[[alice-mielke1]]The Memory of Salt, by Alice Melike Ülgezer, is a rare work of fiction that engages with multiculturalism not just as an idea or principle, but as a…
Blog post — 2 Aug 2012
Q&A with Alice Melike Ülgezer, author of The Memory of Salt
Alice Melike Ülgezer chats with Will Heyward about her novel,
The Memory of Salt
One thing I must say first of all is that the gender of Ali is never…
Review — 23 Sep 2012
Las Vegas for Vegans by A.S. Patrić
I happen to know that A.S. Patrić is a fanatic of the short story. I have this crazy suspicion that he’s one of the most obsessive short-story writers on earth…
Review — 7 Sep 2012
Quarterly Essay 47: Political Animal by David Marr
[[david-marr-sm]]Read our Q&A with David Marr here.
Picture Tony Abbott posing for one of those ceremonial G20 Summit class photos. Second from the back row, his skin-and-bone face –…
Review — 22 Apr 2012
The Server by Tim Parks
A confession of favouritism: I love Tim Parks’ essays and book reviews. He’s an original journalist and a master of short form nonfiction. Nevertheless, I hadn’t read any of his…
Review — 28 May 2012
The Method by Juli Zeh
[[juli]]The Method is a dystopian novel set during the middle of the 21st century that knows all the rules of the genre and deliberately manipulates them to wonderful effect…