No Substance #169: Brian Castro's Birds of Passage and Other Things

Last week I found myself reading Brian Castro’s first novel, Birds of Passage. It was published in 1982. Since then, Castro has gone on to publish another ten novels. His last, published in 2017, was Blindness and Rage. It was published, as most of his work has been in the last twenty years or so, by the excellent Australian press, Giramondo, and distri…