Martin McKenzie-Murray
Australian writer and journalist; author of a 2026 essay on Mailer's The Gospel According to the Son and literary risk.
Martin McKenzie-Murray is an Australian writer and journalist, formerly chief correspondent for The Saturday Paper. His 2026 essay for The Monthly, Here’s Piety in Your Eye, uses Mailer’s The Gospel According to the Son (1997) and the example of Mailer’s risk-taking ego to argue against what he sees as the timid “moral hygiene” of contemporary Australian literary culture.