If one were to seek a representative figure around whom to write an account of the writer's role in Australia during the last half of the twentieth century, few would be better choices than Frank Moorhouse. Moorhouse and his career have been exemplary of a shift in the way the profession of letters has evolved in Australia during that period. He has also actively accepted the professional and personal responsibility to participate in--as well as to chronicle and critique--the evolution of the profession and the evolution of the institutional forms, social practices, and public discourses in which it is embedded. He has been involved in several of the literary controversies through which some of the central anxieties of the cultural politics of the era have been brought to light. His work has evolved in some ways that might have been unexpected at an early stage of his writing...