Open Marxism 2: Theory and Practice was released with volume 1 in 1992. The introduction to volume 2 is included below along with the full PDF. For a fuller overview of Open Marxism, see the ...

“Artists used to think about art through art. Now they think about it through Theory,” laments a character in Michelle de Kretser’s “Theory & Practice.” But the complaint falls on deaf ears, as the ...

A vivid outback tale, an anguished 80s love triangle and real life are cleverly held in play in the Australian novelist’s inventive memoir-novel-essay hybrid This book starts as an evocative, shifting ...

The award-winning Australian’s deconstruction of the novel form is a rich pleasure Michelle de Kretser’s seventh novel, her first since the Folio prize-winning Scary Monsters, opens conventionally ...

Concepts are great, but results matter. This is a clear example of theory meeting hands-on practice and doing exactly what it ...