Maria Tumarkin is a writer and cultural historian. She is the author of three previous books of ideas, Traumascapes, Courage, and Otherland, all of which received critical acclaim in Australia, where she lives. Her most recent work, Axiomatic, won the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award.
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‘Maria Tumarkin’s shape-shifting Axiomatic deploys all
the resources of narrative, reportage and essay. It is a work of
great power and beauty.’
— Pankaj Mishra, author of The Age of Anger
‘[Axiomatic] is comprised of restless, gorgeous essays, each
of which uses an aphorism – “time heals all wounds,” “you can’t
enter the same river twice” – to reflect on Tumarkin’s
preoccupations: trauma, the ongoingness of the past, and the
unworkability of language. Tumarkin takes up subjects like youth
suicide and the plight of homeless people in North Melbourne, but
her approach is never maudlin.’
— Katy Waldman, New Yorker
‘The work of a virtuoso ... Like Maggie Nelson’s, Tumarkin’s
is the kind of writing that makes much creative nonfiction seem
clumsy and rudimentary, as if everyone else is writing way too many
words about smaller, pettier ideas.’
— The Believer
‘Tumarkin presents a remarkable tour de force ... These essays
will linger in readers’ minds for years after.’
— Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
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