My Writing / Drusilla Modjeska

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Review of Elena Ferrante's Frantumaglia (Text)
Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum
5-6 November 2016
Review of Jenny Diski's In Gratitude (Bloomsbury)
and Cory Taylor's Dying (Text)

Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum
11-12 June, 2016
Review of Vivian Gornick's
The Odd Woman and the City (Nero)

Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum
2-3 April 2016
Horror of war without its glory

Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth
Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum
12 July 2014
Introduction to Christina Stead's For Love Alone

First published by MUP as part of the Miegunyah Modern Library series 2011
Under the Bridge: Delia Falconer's 'Sydney'

The Monthly, November 2010
The Death of the Good Father

The Monthly, September 2009
Also published in Robyn Davidson (ed), Best Australian Essays 2009, Melbourne, Black Inc. 2009
'Arise!': Philip Roth's Indignation

The Monthly, March 2009
Between a Muddle & a Mystery: Brian Dibble's 'Doing Life'

The Monthly, December 2009
A Husk of Meaning: What Happened to Community?

The Monthly, August 2007
Letters in the sand: Lloyd Jones's 'Mister Pip'

The Monthly, November 2006
Our Future Thinkers: The search for the next generation of public intellectuals

The Monthly, July 2006
The Multiple Lives of a Muse: Carolyn Burke's 'Lee Miller'

The Monthly, March 2006
Introduction to Katherine Susannah Prichard's Coonardoo (1929)

Published as Introduction to Angus and Robertson Imprint Classics, Sydney, 1990

They bring their Somethings

Introduction to Randolph Stow, Visitants,
Text classics, 2015
The Informed Imagination

Writing The Mountain,
Meajin, Vol 74, No 2 March, 2015
PNG Voices raised in anger

Review of 2014 Crocodile Prize Anthology
The Australian, Weekend Review
15 November 2014
Buk bilong Pikinini: Drusilla Modjeska talks to Anne-Sophie Hermann

Meajin, Vol 72, No 1 March, 2013
The World Until Yesterday

Introduction to Randolph Stow,
Sydney Morning Herald, 2 February, 2013
The Pacific Solution

Review of Peter Brunt, Nicholas Thomas et. al.
Art in Oceani: A New History (Thames and Hudson)
Sydney Morning Herald, 12 January, 2013
In the Fjords: On Tufi, Papua New Guinea

The Monthly, May 2011
Fabric of Wisdom: The Context of Omië nioge

in The Wisdom of the Mountain
Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2009
Preparing the barkcloth and making the dyes

in The Wisdom of the Mountain
Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2009
John Wesley Vaso

Edited interview with Drusilla Modjeska,
4-6 September, 2007
Collingwood Bay Logging Case

Notes & interview with Anne Kajir,
Port Moresby, 28 August 2007
PNG Writing, Writing PNG

Meanjin, 62/3, 2003

Clarice Beckett: At the Edge

Catalogue Essay: Clarice Beckett,
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, April 2014
Sydney Gets a Laneway

The Monthly, April 2012
The Green in Grass

This essay originally appeared in Janet Laurence: After Eden, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, 2012. Published on the occasion of Janet Laurence's exhibition After Eden commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation 16 March - 19 May, 2012
Bodying Forth: Alice Neel and Louise Bourgeois

The Monthly, October 2011
Framing Clarice Beckett

Australian's Review of Books, March 1999;
Drusilla Modjeska, Timepieces, Sydney, Picador, 2002
On Not Owning a Grace Cossington Smith

Australian's Review of Books, March 1999;
Drusilla Modjeska, Timepieces, Sydney, Picador, 2002

Drusilla Modjeska