Skip navigation
London Review of Books Christmas Books

Homo Narrator

Inga Clendinnen

  • Mirror Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography by Susanna Egan

This article is not currently available online. Buy reprint of this article.

Inga Clendinnen’s Dancing with Strangers is about the interactions between indigenous Australians and the first generation of British settlers at Port Jackson.

From the archive

Eat Grass
Jenny Turner on The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank

Impossible Wishes
Michael Wood on Thomas Mann

Booker Books
Frank Kermode on the 1979 prize

Where Does He Come From?
Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Placing V.S. Naipaul

Art Is a Cupboard!
Tony Wood on Daniil Kharms