6 From the Archive, Pristine
Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory - S
Some of my favourite essays are found on the Sydney Review of Books website. Here are six pieces that I particularly love:
An Introvert’s Guide to Surviving an Arab Family of Extroverts by Rawah Arja.
An alternative narrative, the community is centre, and what’s more, it’s funny.
A Glovebox of One’s Own by Luke Carman.
This is the essay that willingly made me want to be stuck on the M4 in traffic.
Shopping Night by May Ngo.
The importance of shopping centres – for better or worse – in our consciousness.
Sumud: A Conversation between Paula Abood and Roanna Gonsalves.
Organising at the grassroots, working together as equals, engaging ethically.
On Being a Precedent by Fiona Wright.
On the concept of the ‘average’ persons and how harmful the ‘average’ is, sometimes deadly.
Settling Scores: Ruth McHugh-Dillon talks to Ellen van Neerven about Reclaiming Sport
A conversation about sport and related topics in the context of van Neerven’s memoir Personal Score.