Southerly: Questionable Characters

by David Brooks

Series:Southerly (77:1)

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Questionable characters are the characters we can't define, forget, resist or feel entirely comfortable with. They challenge our values and beliefs and surprise us with new imaginings of ethos. This issue of Southerly draws together a rich and eclectic range of essays, poetry and fiction. Luigi Gussago argues that Peter Carey's histories present a challenge to the univocal false-consciousness of Australian colonial history, while Debra Adelaide's Reading Australia essay on Thea Astley's show more Drylands argues that Astley draws "text, author and reader into an embrace so intimate they are barely distinguishable". The detective fiction "pot-boilers" of Shane Martin, AKA, George Johnston, are considered in a new light by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell. Martin's detective figure, Challis, "the moon-drifted leprechaun", is a questionable character, par excellence. All this, plus Southerly's usual feast of the best new poetry and fiction from Australia and New Zealand, and reviews of the same. show less

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David Brooks was born in Toronto, Canada on August 11, 1961. He received a degree in history from the University of Chicago in 1983. After graduation, he worked as a police reporter for the City News Bureau. His other jobs include numerous posts at The Wall Street Journal, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, and a contributing editor at show more Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly. He currently is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times since 2003 and a weekly commentator on PBS NewsHour. He is the author of the several books including Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense, and The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement. He is also the editor of the anthology Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing. David Brooks made the New York Times Best Seller List with his title Social Animal: the Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement and The Road to Character. (Publisher Provided) show less