Articles, Essays & Book Chapters | Reviews | Lectures & Readings | Interviews | Panel Discussions & Papers | Miscellaneous
Articles, Essays & Book Chapters
- ‘The Legend of Jandamarra’, The Monthly, October 2011.
- ‘“Growing Small Wings”: Walter Benjamin, Lola Ridge, and the Political Affect of Modernism’, Affirmations: Of the Modern, 1.2 (2014), 120–42.
- ‘Turnings and Over-Turnings in Glebe’, Sydney Review of Books, 9 February 2018.
Reviews
- ‘Fraying Nerves’, review of The Hamilton Case, by Michelle de Kretser, Australian Book Review, 251, 2003, p. 46.
- ‘The Missing Novels: Our Critics Nominate Some Overlooked Classics’, includes a short review by Gail Jones of The Scent of Eucalyptus, by Barbara Hanrahan, Australian Book Review, 374, 2015, pp. 41–43.
- ‘2018 Australian Book Review Film Survey’, includes a short review by Gail Jones of Bicycle Thieves, by Vittorio De Sica, Australian Book Review, 402, 2018.
- ‘From Dysfunction and Provincialism to an Elegant Literary Life: Gail Jones Reviews the "Brilliant" First Biography of Shirley Hazzard’, The Conversation, 13 December 2022.
Lectures & Readings
- ‘Spirals and Monuments: On Poetics, Narrative and Memorialization’ (unpublished literary reading presented at the Reading Across Borders with Professor Gail Jones, Australia National University, Canberra, ACT, 2015).
- ‘Spiral Time, Biscuit Tins, Butterflies: How Nabokov Enlivens Us’, Sydney Writers’ Festival Podcast, 30 September 2016.
- ‘Gail Jones Reads and Discusses Her Short Story “The Four Dreams of Lu Xun”’ (unpublished short story presented at the Writing and Society Research Centre, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2017).
Interviews
- ‘The January Interview’, by Summer Block, January Magazine, 9 May 2008.
- ‘David Haworth Interviews Gail Jones’, Readings, 30 July 2015.
- ‘The Pleasure of Language Itself: An Interview with Gail Jones’, by Robert Wood, Los Angeles Review of Books, 4 April 2018.
- ‘Stella Prize Winner Alexis Wright, Male Romance Writers, Gail Jones on Her New Novel, and Books for Kids’, interview by Claire Nichols, ABC Radio National: The Book Show, 17 April 2018.
- ‘Miles Franklin Shortlist 2019: Gail Jones, Jennifer Mills & Melissa Lucashenko’, interview by Astrid Edwards, The Garret: Writers on Writing, 4 July 2019.
- ‘Tall Poppies: The Podcast with Gail Jones’, interview by Breandáin O’Shea, Tall Poppies, February 2020.
- ‘Haunted by Our Shadows’, interview by Patricia Karvelas, ABC Radio National: The Drawing Room, 21 October 2020.
- ‘Gail Jones - Our Shadows’, interview with Krissy Kneen, Avid Reader Bookshop, 23 October 2020.
- ‘Gail Jones in Conversation’, interview by Bernadette Brennan, Gleebooks Author Talks, 27 October 2020.
- ‘Gail Jones Was Saved by Reading’, interview by Michael Williams The Saturday Paper, 29 February 2024.
Selected Panel Discussions and Papers
- Jones, Gail, Jay Parini, and Martin Stannard, ‘Shirley Hazzard: Literary Icon’ (unpublished panel discussion presented at the first international conference about Shirley Hazzard, Members’ Room, The New York Society Library, New York, 2012).
- ‘Wing-Flutter, Air-Sweep and Human Breath: The Ethics of Voice and Encounter in Australian Studies’ (keynote speech given at the EASA Conference, The University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain, 2023).
Miscellaneous
- ‘Australian Literature Is Chronically Underfunded — Here’s How to Help It Flourish’, The Conversation, 8 November 2020.
- Comment left on 5 November 2021 in response to Mayo Kanamori’s ‘A Tribute to Noreen Jones (1932-2021)’, Nikkei Australia: Japanese Diaspora in Australia , 2021.
