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The Shadow and the Acolyte

Braiding the story of a literary friendship that soured with an account of changes at Australian universities since the 1970s, Joseph Steinberg shows the role that tertiary education has played in shaping writers’ work and sense of vocation.

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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
Now What?
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon and the arrival of Indochinese refugees in Australia, Kim Huynh and Vivian Pham exchange emails about the bonds of gratitude, the persistence of joy, and a new Vietnamese Australian aesthetic.
Kim Huynh,
Vivian Pham
22 Apr. 2025
The Vietnamese Turn
The SRB talks to Nathalie Nguyen about the changing historiography of the Vietnam War, with greater recognition of Vietnamese-language sources and the role of South Vietnam, and the personal stakes of this history for the Vietnamese diaspora.
Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen
29 Apr. 2025
Bala Ga’ Lili
The Näku Dhäruk Petitions were the first native title documents recognised in Australian parliament. Monique Grbec reads Clare Wright’s historical account of the Petitions through the balance and reciprocity in the Yolŋu phrase, ‘bala ga’ lili’.
Monique Grbec
28 Apr. 2025

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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

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