Feature

Living it Line by Line

Hossein Asgari and Kim Cheng Boey talk about the novels they have each written about a real-life poet: respectively, the mid-twentieth-century Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad and the Tang-dynasty Chinese poet Du Fu.

Browse

The Latest

Woman Alone
Drawing on her experiences bushwalking through Western Sydney and her reading of Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall, Jumaana Abdu reflects on ‘abject freedom’, a concept that points to the paradoxical and precarious nature of women’s freedom in solitude....
Jumaana Abdu
27 May. 2025
Shadow Texts
Joan Fleming reviews two books that embrace the discomfort occasioned by reckonings with colonial monuments. While challenges to commemorative art are often characterised as destructive, Fleming highlights the creative aspect of these reframings.
Joan Fleming
21 May. 2025
Glitching the Binary
Is there no escaping the oppressive apparatus of the capitalist heteropatriarchy? Reviewing Anna Poletti’s hello, world?, Jenny Hedley traces the characters’ hopeful forays into BDSM – their attempt to deprogram themselves and glitch the machine.
Jenny Hedley
16 May. 2025
Futures Not Taken
Science fiction has a history of harnessing pop music and psychedelic elements to envision radical alternatives to the status quo. James Macaronas observes that Jordan Prosser’s Big Time taps into this legacy but falls short of going all the way.
James Macaronas
13 May. 2025

News

Callout: 2025 CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowship

In partnership with the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, the Sydney Review of Books  invites applicat...

2 June. 2025

The 2025 Frank Moorhouse Reading Room Writers-in-Residence

It’s with great pleasure that we announce the recipients of the 2025 Frank Moorhouse Reading Room re...

4 Apr. 2025

See All News

Reviews

More Reviews

Essays

More Essays

Interviews

More Interviews

Read

Stay Updated

Community

Subscribe

Feature

Living it Line by Line

Browse

By Project

By Topic

By Writer

The Latest

Woman Alone

Shadow Texts

Glitching the Binary

Futures Not Taken

News

Callout: 2025 CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowship

The 2025 Frank Moorhouse Reading Room Writers-in-Residence

Reviews

Good Posture

Shadow Texts

Glitching the Binary

Futures Not Taken

Essays

The Shadow and the Acolyte

Woman Alone

Now What?

Baltic Blues. And Other Colours.

Interviews

Living it Line by Line

The Poet Eaters

The Vietnamese Turn

Settling Scores