A Century ofThe 39 Steps

Before Ian Fleming and all the other authors who have made heroes of the wrongly accused there was John Buchan's urbane Richard Hannay

Simon Caterson

Sep 21 2024

12 mins

Travelling by the Word: Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn is a writer unusually hard to classify, certainly […]

Simon Caterson

May 01 2016

10 mins

Conservative Revolutionaries

Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland 1890–1923 by R.F. […]

Simon Caterson

Nov 01 2015

8 mins

Dubliners, 100 Years On

Now considered canonical, there was a time when Dubliners risked […]

Simon Caterson

Dec 01 2014

5 mins

The Original Gentleman Thief

 The first Australian celebrity, George Barrington (1755?–1804) harnessed the power […]

Simon Caterson

Jul 01 2010

8 mins

Towards a General Theory of Hoaxes

There is no end to hoaxes, impostures, frauds and fakes, […]

Simon Caterson

Jan 01 2010

18 mins

Writing by Numbers

“There is a divinity in odd numbers”, wrote William Shakespeare, […]

Simon Caterson

Oct 07 2008

8 mins

The Ethics of Literary Hoaxes

EVERY TIME a literary hoax is exposed—it is a frequent […]

Simon Caterson

Jul 01 2008

9 mins

The Fox and the Hedgehog

Two of the best-known and most influential Australians, General Sir […]

Simon Caterson

Apr 01 2008

24 mins