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Catalano examines the imaginitive elaboration and central importance of the home as a place of refuge in Murray's poetry. He concludes that 'in order for it to be a true refuge, it must in some way acknowledge the infinite variety of the world. There is, in short, a sense in which it must be an ark.' (p.18)
Sophie Cunningham interviews her father, Peter Nicholls on the subject of his career within the world of science fiction. The interview ranges across areas such as the history (and the new respectability) of science fiction, the high culture/low culture divide, and Australia's ongoing isolation from the British and American literary scenes.
'Peter Craven appraises three recent novels, one English [Ian McEwan's Atonement], one Australian [Winton's Dirt Music] and one American [Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections], that contrive to cross the boundaries of serious and popular fiction' and assesses the degrees of artistic success. (p.133)
Jones 'celebrates the distinctive approaches that his Australian and American colleagues can bring as outsiders to the understanding of European culture and society'. (p.155)
