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Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood is a horror story for our time

  • Written by: Julian Novitz, Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood is a horror story for our timeBela Lugosi as Count Dracula (1931).Wikimedia Commons.

Almost every review to date mentions the brutal argument that closes the first section of Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood. In a novel filled with incident – disasters, chases, one very bad acid trip, general maleficence – it is telling that this scene lingers.

The members of the...

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