Flanagan, Richard
About Richard Flanagan
Biography (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Speller, Maureen Kincaid. “Richard Flanagan.” Critical Survey of World Literature, 2017
Munro, Donna. “Richard Flanagan.” Critical Survey of Long Fiction, 2010
“Australia’s Richard Flanagan Wins Man Booker Prize.” Writer’s Chronicle, vol. 47, no. 3, 2014
“Richard Flanagan is Ashamed of Abbott, Howard and Rudd but not David Hicks.” The Australian, 16 Oct. 2014
Reviews
Oates, Joyce Carol. “The Ghostwriter’s Mask.” New York Review of Books, vol. 65, no. 14, 2018
Finnell, Joshua. “First Person.” Library Journal, vol. 143, no. 3, 2018
Moran, Alexander. “First Person.” Booklist, vol. 114, no. 13, 2018
Jools, Penelope. “Heroism, and Love in Richard Flanagan's Narrow Road to the Deep North.” Australasian Journal of Psychotherapy, vol. 33, no. 2, 2015
Donovan, Stewart. “Imperial Legacy.” Nashwaak Review, vol. 34-35, no. 1, 2015
Gittins, Barry, and Jen Vuk. “Richard Flanagan Sorts Suffering from Virtue.” Eureka Street, vol. 24, no. 22, 2014
Shirm, Gretchen. “Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North.” Southerly, vol. 74, no. 1, 2014
Bridgham, Elizabeth. “Wanting.” Dickens Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 2, 2011
Perkins, Christine. “The Unknown Terrorist.” Library Journal, vol. 132, no. 3, 2007
Kloszewski, Marc. “Gould’s Book of Fish.” Library Journal, vol. 127, no. 5, 2002
Reese, Jennifer. “As I Lay Drowning.” New York Times Book Review, 8 May 2001
Kicinski, Judith. “Book Reviews: Fiction.” Library Journal, vol. 125, no. 1, 2000
Interviews
“Richard Flanagan, Novelist: “My Mother Hoped I Might Make a Good Plumber”.” New Statesman, vol. 146, no. 5394, 2017
Birnbaum, Robert. “Richard Flanagan.” The Morning News, 22 Jul. 2010
Wisbey, Chris. “Intimations of Mortality: Richard Flanagan Interviewed.” Island Magazine, vol. 66, 1996
Criticism
Holgate, Ben. “Intersecting Imperialisms: The Rise and Fall of Empires in Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North.” Journal of World Literature, vol. 4, no. 3, 2019
Kušnír, Jaroslav. “Media, Simulation, Freedom and Control in Richard Flanagan’s The Unknown Terrorist (2006).” Ars Aeterna, vol. 10, no. 1, 2018
Staniforth, Martin. "'Shades of the Prison House': Reading Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Peter Carey's Amnesia." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 53, no. 5, 2017
Arimitsu, Yasue. “Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Matsuo Basho's Oku no hosomichi.” Coolabah, vol. 21, 2017
Derkenne, Jamie. “Richard Flanagan's and Alexis Wright's Magic Nihilism.” Antipodes, vol. 31, no. 2, 2017
Dixon, Robert. “'Communications from Below': Scalar Transformations in Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013) and Steven Carroll's A World of Other People (2013).” Antipodes, vol. 31, no. 1, 2017
Duthie, Fiona. “Enemies of Honor: Heroes and Prisoners of War in Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Tom Keneally's Shame and the Captives.” Antipodes, vol. 30, no. 1, 2016
Chialant, Maria Teresa. “Dickens, the Antipodes and the Neo-Victorian Novel: Richard Flanagan's Wanting.” Reflections on/of Dickens, Kujawska-Lis and Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska (eds.), 2014
Cummins, Joseph. “Echoes between Van Diemen’s Land and Tasmania: Sound and the Space of the Island in Richard Flanagan’s Death of a River Guide and Carmel Bird’s Cape Grimm.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 49, no. 2, 2014
Dalley, Hamish, The Postcolonial Historical Novel: Realism, Allegory, and the Representation of Contested Pasts, 2014
Deyo, Brian Daniel. “Rewriting History/Animality in J. M. Coetzee's Dusklands and Richard Flanagan's Wanting.” ARIEL, vol. 44, no. 4, 2013
Tsai, Robin. “(Post)Modernity in the Penal Colony: Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish.” Neohelicon, vol. 38, no. 2, 2011
Antor, Heinz. “The Trauma of Immigration and the Ethics of Self-Positioning in Richard Flanagan's The Sound of One Hand Clapping.” The Splintered Glass: Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond, Herrero and Baelo-Allué (eds.), 2011
Works
Novels
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (2020)
First Person (2018)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013)
Wanting (2008)
The Unknown Terrorist (2006)
Gould’s Book of Fish (2001)
The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1997)
Death of a River Guide (1994)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
“Did the Pandemic Kill Ideology in Australia?” The New York Times, 19 May 2020
“Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide.” The New York Times, 2 Jan. 2020
As Editor: Ben Quilty (2019)
"Introduction." Home: Drawings by Syrian Children, Quilty (ed.), 2018
Seize the Fire: Three Speeches (2018)
Notes on an Exodus: An Essay (2016)
The Australian Disease: On the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom (2015)
And What Do You Do, Mr. Gable: New and Collected Essays (2011)
“Went for a Swim.” Meanjin, vol. 70, no. 3, 2011
With Peter Dombrovskis and Jamie Kirkpatrick. On the Mountain, 1996
“The Stars & the Mountains: A Politics to Reclaim the Commons.”, Island Magazine, 1995
“Stripped Naked by Film.” Island Magazine, 1993
"Parish-Fed Bastards": A History of the Politics of the Unemployed in Britain, 1884–1939 (1991)
Codename Iago: The Story of John Friedrich (1991)
With Cassandra Pybus. The Rest of the World is Watching, 1990
A Terrible Beauty: History of the Gordon River Country (1985)
Films
Wri. Australia (2003)
Dir./Wri. The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1998)
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Richard Flanagan’s Thoughts about Writing. YouTube, 29 Jan. 2015