Anthony Macris

Anthony Macris is Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney and author of the Capital novels. His best-selling memoir, When Horse Became Saw: a family’s journey through autism (Penguin), was shortlisted for the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. His most recent book is Aftershocks: Selected Writings and interviews (UWAP).

Works By Anthony Macris

Ways of Being
Anthony Macris reviews two books that afford an intimate glimpse into the formation of two intellectuals, George Kouvaros and Nikos Papastergiadis. In their stories, Macris sees the pathos and prodigiousness of the changes wrought by modernity.
17 Feb. 2025
The Path
Loving someone, however, isn’t so easy. Loving someone for your entire life, even your child, especially your child, can be one of the most difficult things you will ever do.
21 Oct. 2021
8 Turner Street, Redfern
'Raise yourself up: that’s what Sydney said. That’s what the rustling trees said. That’s what the gentrified terrace houses said.'
27 June. 2017
394 Abercrombie Street
‘We belong to people, we belong to places, we belong to ourselves. When you uproot yourself, when you decide to permanently leave somewhere, you are saying to your family, your friends, I no longer belong here. This is not the place where I can be...
17 Oct. 2016
Poor Karl Ove! Knausgaard’s selfie-as-novel
But can this Nordic Untermensch, with his Tolstoyan and Proustian ambitions, in length if not quite in scope, keep us interested? The short answer is yes, and compellingly so, if not for obvious reasons.
28 June. 2016
The novel, sense-making, and Mao
‘The world of work I was to enter in the early 1980s saw an Australia at a tipping point, steeped in a kind of clanking, mechanical/electrical Fordist modernity, but on the cusp of radical change. This was the world I was entering, and it was the
19 Oct. 2015

Read

Stay Updated

Community

Subscribe

Anthony Macris

Works By Anthony Macris

Ways of Being

The Path

8 Turner Street, Redfern

394 Abercrombie Street

Poor Karl Ove! Knausgaard’s selfie-as-novel

The novel, sense-making, and Mao

Works Featuring Anthony Macris

Love and Market Forces

A Real Inexperience: Inexperience and other stories

Road to omission

On the road again: Great Western Highway: A Love Story