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David Malouf enjoys a distinguished reputation, nationally and internationally, as a writer whose lyrical mappings of identity, place, and the body also bear upon questions of belonging and national identity. Crossing successfully from poetry to prose fi...

It is interesting to note that for the American edition of Remembering Babylon, the library cataloguing information puts David Malouf's eighth novel into two categories: "Frontier and pioneer life - Australia" and "Australian aborigines - Fiction." It will not come as a surprise,...

SOME of the world's most enduring stories are about the disturbingly sudden appearance of a Savage Outsider in a community that regards itself as settled and, by its own lights, civilised. The 19th-century legend of Kaspar Hauser, that strange boy with no origins...

[In the essay below, Otto analyzes Malouf's portrayal of male-female relationships, the sublime, the political, and the social in Remembering Babylon, noting Malouf's delineation of the evolution of Australia's colonial identity into a national identity.]

[In the review below, Truax offers a thematic discussion of Remembering Babylon.]

[In the review below, Garner favorably assesses Remembering Babylon, stating that this is "Malouf's best book" to date.]