Sunday, June 23, 2019

Nigel Featherstone’s new novel tackles traditional conservatism and patriarchy through an unconventional romance

How can you be a man and be anti-war? This is the question that Sydney-born novelist Nigel Featherstone, who is a pacifist, considered while he took up a three-month writing residency in a military library. He set out to discover what happens to very different expressions of masculinity placed under military pressure.

“Australia does have a very defined, toxic brand of masculinity,” says the bespectacled Featherstone, seated by the window at his local pub facing the railway station at Goulburn, north of Canberra, while men on stools at the nearby bar sink beers and televisions on the walls screen horse racing results.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2N8piOc

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