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 i...
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[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 ...
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[In the following favorable review of Remembering Babylon, Kakutani praises Malouf's characterizations and his focus on Australian history.]
The Babylon referred to in the title of David Malouf...
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[An American critic and journalist, Eder received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1987. In the following review, he discusses Malouf's focus on alienation, colonialism, identity, and cultur...
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[In the review below, Truax offers a thematic discussion of Remembering Babylon.]
The Australian writer David Malouf is fascinated with the power of words, an obsession he shares with the characters i...
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[In the review below, Garner favorably assesses Remembering Babylon, stating that this is "Malouf's best book" to date.]
The Australian writer David Malouf's new novel is a...
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[Blanche is a New South Wales novelist. In the excerpt below, she faults Malouf's focus on characterization rather than theme in Remembering Babylon.]
Remembering Babylon, David Malouf's...
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[Blume is an American novelist. In the following, he offers praise for Remembering Babylon, comparing the novel to Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness (1902).]
There is an area forever as...
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[An educator, Smith was one of the judges responsible for awarding Malouf the 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction. In the essay below, she discusses Malouf's focus on language, bounda...
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(George) (Joseph) David Malouf
Remembering Babylon
