praiseworthy

“The effort is praiseworthy, but so excessively tardy that it is perfectly useless,” a collective of linguists wrote in the Liberation newspaper on Thursday.

“Praiseworthy,” Alexis Wright’s bracing satire of clashing worldviews in Australia, more than lives up to its name.

Read: “Praiseworthy” is the latest novel by Alexis Wright, arguably the most important Aboriginal Australian — or simply Australian — writer alive today.

Read: “Praiseworthy” is the latest novel from Alexis Wright, arguably the most important Aboriginal Australian — or simply Australian — writer alive today.

“Praiseworthy,” her fourth and latest novel, will be released by New Directions in the United States on Feb. 6, along with a reissue of “Carpentaria,” her most famous work.