two new Australian novels reinvent the elegy for an age of climate catastrophe

  • Written by: Brigid Magner, Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
two new Australian novels reinvent the elegy for an age of climate catastropheA Weeping Woman– Rembrandt (c.1645)Public domain

Gretchen Shirm’s The Crying Room and Briohny Doyle’s Why We Are Here share a preoccupation with death and grief and what it means to live on, without intimate others, during a climate crisis. Both novels feature protagonists who lose parents and partners, and both explore their...

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