Luke Slattery

Luke Slattery is a Sydney journalist and writer. He has published three books, the latest of which is Reclaiming Epicurus: Could an ancient philosophy of happiness save the world? (2013).

Works By Luke Slattery

Writing About Elsewhere: The Hotel Years by Joseph Roth
‘Now that Joseph Roth has been thoroughly absorbed into English, it seems right to ask whether there is a more joyously unbridled – and a more appealing – writer of narrative fiction in the literary tradition.’ Luke Slattery on a new translation o...
18 May. 2016
Years of Lead: Leonardo Sciascia
25 years after Leonardo Sciascia's death, Granta has reissued most of his translated titles. These short, acrid tales are written in a dry Stendhalian style. Braided around their assured plotlines are philosophical dialogues on morality and politi...
14 Oct. 2014
In defiance of time: The Broken Road by Patrick Leigh Fermor
The finest travel narrative of the twentieth century can at last be read in full in the second decade of the twenty-first, some 80 years after the events it describes and two after its author, Patrick Leigh Fermor, died at the splendid age of 96.
1 Oct. 2013

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Luke Slattery

Works By Luke Slattery

Writing About Elsewhere: The Hotel Years by Joseph Roth

Years of Lead: Leonardo Sciascia

In defiance of time: The Broken Road by Patrick Leigh Fermor