When Australian Book Review editor Peter Rose was considering the creation of the magazine's first laureate, he didn't spend too long looking for the right person to be honoured.

“Every Move You Make,” the title story of David Malouf’s most recent collection, awakens some interesting Australian echoes. The story centers around Jo, a woman in her 30s who came to Australia from ...

David Malouf’s prose has been called many things in the three decades since his first novel, Johnno, was published: poetic, prize-winning and pearl-like in its polish. But rarely sexy. In work such as ...