Cockroach: Object of Disgust

22.06.18

Andrew Pippos

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    June 2018

    SRB-WestWords Writers’ Residency

    21.06.18

    Catriona Menzies-Pike

    Published on 07.08.15 in Week in Review
    Slums The History of a Global Injustice by Alan Mayne

    Where Someone Else Lives: Alan Mayne’s Slums

    Slums were always removed when they were in the path of the powerful, but slum clearance for its own sake, in pursuit of social improvement, also accelerated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

    19.06.18

    Katrina Gulliver

    Published on 21.03.18 in
    Homo Deus by Yval Noah Harari

    A Big History of the Future: Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

    19.06.18

    Ian Hesketh

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    Breaking Up with James Joyce

    15.06.18

    Gabrielle Carey

    Published on 14.06.17 in Features

    Weaponising Learning

    12.06.18

    Nick Riemer

    Published on 20.11.15 in Week in Review
    Forest City

    Forest City

    12.06.18

    Ben Denham

    Published on 10.09.13 in New Nature, Features

    Meat-Eaters

    08.06.18

    Eve Vincent

    Published on 17.05.13 in New Nature, Features

    Flow Charts: Alexandria

    05.06.18

    Ross Gibson

    Published on 04.05.18 in Sydney, Features
    Abandon Me by Melissa Febos

    To Resilience – and Beyond!

    If you break, Michael Ondaatje’s speaker advises his daughter in ‘To a Sad Daughter’, ‘break going out, not in’. What if breakage can be a preface to remaking the self and voice?

    05.06.18

    Felicity Plunkett

    Published on 14.02.13 in

    The Next Suburb Over

    01.06.18

    Robert Wood

    Published on 07.03.18 in Emerging Critics 2018, Poetry, Features

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    May 2018

    In the Garden of the Fugitives by Ceridwen Dovey

    Excavating the Past: Ceridwen Dovey’s Garden of the Fugitives

    29.05.18

    Sophia Barnes

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    The Lebs by Michael Mohammed Ahmad

    I’m with stupid: The Lebs by Michael Mohammed Ahmad

    25.05.18

    James Ley

    Published on 19.03.13 in
    A Kindness Cup by Thea Astley

    Saying the Unsayable: A Kindness Cup by Thea Astley

    25.05.18

    Kate Grenville

    Published on 01.05.18 in
    Essayism by Brian Dillon

    A Mole, A Viper, A Toad: Brian Dillon’s Essayism

    I am so grateful to have been, at last, the right reader for Essayism. It is Dillon’s life preserver, thrown to himself, and it is joyfully, wonderfully good.

    22.05.18

    Tegan Bennett Daylight

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    Common People by Tony Birch

    Labour That Holds Us Together: Common People by Tony Birch

    18.05.18

    Robert Wood

    Published on 07.03.18 in
    The World Goes On By László Krasznahorkai

    Strange Harmonies: On the Translations of László Krasznahorkai

    18.05.18

    Rita Horanyi

    Published on 16.03.18 in

    Six Degrees from the City: Episode 4 – Walter Mason

    15.05.18

    Fiona Wright

    Published on 14.06.13 in Western Sydney, Podcasts, Interviews
    Down the Hume by Peter Polites

    Nursing Grievances: Neoliberal Noir in Peter Polites’ Down the Hume

    This ambitious re-situating of the noir in the ethnically diverse Australian city, with its complicated stratifications of class and ethnicity, raises the question of what the genre can do for these new contexts. Noir has long offered a space for airing working-class grievances, and for smuggling in queer and feminist subtexts. What, then, does noir do for contemporary Western Sydney, and what can it do for the children of migrants and working-class queers in Australia? Can the genre be re-inhabited in ways that self-consciously expose the grim machinations and effects of new types of economic, psychic and social exclusion while delivering, concurrently, the reading pleasures of mystery and melodrama? It is certainly a lot to pull off.

    11.05.18

    Dion Kagan

    Published on 02.03.18 in

    A Private Life: Philip Waldron

    11.05.18

    Eva Hornung

    Published on 06.03.18 in Features
    The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability

    Where are all the disabled writers?

    08.05.18

    Amanda Tink

    Published on 27.02.18 in

    My Father Didn’t Write That: I Did: on A Woman of the Future

    Revisiting A Woman of the Future is not like discovering a prophetic message or a time capsule. It is not like a centrefold pinned up in the garage. It is like being given a good hard shake by the furry hand of Alethea Hunt.

    04.05.18

    Bonny Cassidy

    Published on 02.03.18 in
    The Book of Dirt by Bram Presser

    What Fills the Silence: The Book of Dirt by Bram Presser

    The Book of Dirt is both a loving, honest portrayal of lives that would have been erased, and an incorporation of the broader lessons of their experience into contemporary mythology. It keeps the discussion about trauma, memory, and intergenerational acts of transfer alive for those generations that follow, that risk forgetting. It is a potent achievement for a debut novel.

    01.05.18

    Jerath Head

    Published on 16.03.18 in

    April 2018

    A Chinese Affair by Isabelle Li

    All In That Space: On Asian Australian Writers

    27.04.18

    Christine Yunn-Yu Sun

    Published on 27.02.18 in

    In the Room with Gerald Murnane

    24.04.18

    Luke Carman

    Published on 02.10.15 in Features

    What Is Mallarmé For?

    20.04.18

    Ali Alizadeh

    Published on 19.09.13 in
    Richard Nixon post-truth

    Peak Bullshit?

    17.04.18

    Richard King

    Published on 06.08.13 in Non-Fiction, Features
    Australia Day by Melanie Cheng

    Flag-bearers for Tomorrow

    13.04.18

    Robert Wood

    Published on 07.03.18 in
    An Odyssey, a father a son and an epic Daniel Mendelson

    A Complicated Man: The Odyssey and Daniel Mendelsohn

    13.04.18

    James Ley

    Published on 19.03.13 in
    Wakuwal-Dream by Peter Botsman

    What Stands to Reason: Isabelle Stengers and Peter Botsman

    'Reading Another Science is Possible and Wakuwal in succession, I am struck by the thought that Stengers and Botsman have written the same treatise in different languages, and from different places in the human psyche. They issue the same call for a tectonic shift in the cognitive landscape.'

    10.04.18

    Jane Goodall

    Published on 30.07.13 in
    Blindness and Rage by Brian Castro

    Ludus et Paidia: Blindness and Rage
    by Brian Castro

    06.04.18

    Mark Byron

    Published on 01.03.18 in
    Locust Girl by Merlinda Bobis

    ‘Kindness is a passage too’: new writing by Merlinda Bobis

    03.04.18

    Jo Langdon

    Published on 27.02.18 in
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