Winton does it again!

30 May

Tim Winton has done it again—finding a way to tell his story of young people and older people, together trying to work out what it means to be human, particularly a white, male human in this wide, dry land. The … Read More »

‘The making of a man’—portrait of the writer as a young man

27 Jan

  It’s not a very popular idea these days, but the question of the formation of character is still a critical question for educators in many fields, and one that comes to mind as one reads Tim Winton’s The Boy … Read More »

Seeing is receiving: Tim Winton, The Boy Behind the Curtain

20 Jan

I am greatly enjoying Tim Winton’s The Boy Behind the Curtain. It shows him to be a deeply reflective man, a person of spiritual and ethical sensitivity as well as dedicated and hard-working in his life as a writer. The … Read More »