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Sydney Review of Books Index 2023

TSAO, Tiffany, When We Became the People from BloomingtonESSAY

LEANE, Jeanine, Cultural Rigour: First Nations Critical Culture, ESSAY

DOBBS, Katie, Tender Maulings, REVIEW

RIORDAN, Kevin, World Literature Comes Full Circle, 1522-2022ESSAY

CRAWFORD, Anwen, All the Young Grooves, REVIEW

NGO, May, Sharpening Sentences, REVIEW

DOVEY, Ceridwen, Telling Stories From The Perspectives Of Objects, ESSAY

WRIGHT, Fiona, Off The Record, REVIEW

JOHNSON, Bruce, These Are The Suburbs, REVIEW

CAMPBELL, Mel, Smoothing Things Over, ESSAY

CAWARD, Clinton, To pose or not to pose?, REVIEW

CHEONG, Megan, Good Mother, Bad Mother, Art Mother, REVIEW

BORCZYK, Kasumi, The Writer Who No Longer Wrote, REVIEW

TRAYNOR, Paul, I Write For A LivingESSAY

COLE, Jessie, On Art as Love (and everything in between)ESSAY

GREIG, Elias, A Cricle Married to a LineESSAY

ALLINGTON, Patrick, The Lived Experience of ReadingREVIEW

LORANGE, Astrid & BROOKS, Andrew: Silverfish, Weevil, IbisREVIEW

SUN, Michael, Against Lifestyle, REVIEW

MCCANN, Hannah, You Got This MamaESSAY

DEAN, Andrew, AI and the Future of Literary Studies, ESSAY

HAMMOUD, Ali, That I May Unfold The Pain Of Yearning, REVIEW

HUNGERFORD, Jocelyn, Acts of LivingREVIEW

SHARMA, Sophiya, The Lore of Departure, ESSAY

LEY, James, Alienation is the Philistinism of the Intellectual, ESSAY

KINSELLA, John, ‘I think I know that smile’, REVIEW

LORANGE, Astrid, Calling BullshitREVIEW

BISCOTTI, Angelita, Edge-Work, REVIEW

KLEE, Louis, Weird Unemployment, Unusual Work, ESSAY

REESON, Oliver, A Kind of Truth, REVIEW

MENZIES-PIKE, Catriona, Fool’s GoldREVIEW

O’BRIEN, Ellen, Journey to HereESSAY

TUMARKIN, Maria, Filling in Time Reading Vasily Grossman While Waiting for SREVIEW

ABOOD, Paula & AHMED, Safdar, Anxious CaringVISUAL ESSAY

PHELAN, Bastian Fox, PerambulatingESSAY

GUL, Hellai, For There She is, Out of the ShadowREVIEW

REESON, Oliver, Seeking Derangement, REVIEW

GELDER, Christian & KLEE, Louis, The Antipodean SchoolESSAY

VARATHARAJAN, Prithvi, Literary MigrationsREVIEW

PATTERSON, Luke, Dreaming Inside-Out, REVIEW

FARRELL, Michael, Thick PickingsREVIEW

SAYYADI, Kobra, Unveiling through art: in conversation with Cigdem AydemirINTERVIEW

BORCZYK, Kasumi, Narrative HoardREVIEW

SAUNDERS, Mykaela, Think of the Children!REVIEW

LEANE, Jeanine, Everlasting SovereigntyREVIEW

GUNAYDIN, Eda, Saved by BooksREVIEW

WEAVER, Rachael, Think FastESSAY

DOBBS, Katie, Back to the Old HouseREVIEW

WALSH, Melanie, Where is all the Book Data?, ESSAY

MADIN, Jack & SERVICE, Ed, Musicking Communitas, ESSAY

TAYLOR, Stayci, SHAW, Oliver, RENDLE-SHORT, Francesca, MURRAY, Peta, MUNRO, Kim, MAGNER, Brigid, HAWKINS, Ames & ELLIS, Melody, Collaborative effervescence through communitas, EXPERIMENTAL ESSAY

ASH, Romy & MICHAEL, Rose, A Third Space: Giving voice to works in progress, ESSAY

ROBITAILLE, Iana, Neoliberal Keywords: Creative, Passionate, Confident, REVIEW

CHEONG, Megan, There It Is, REVIEW

ROBINSON-SHAW, Ursula, SUBLIME NEUTRALITY, REVIEW

THE EXPANDED WRITERS COLLECTIVE, Archipelagos of grief: crises partially digested, EXPERIMENTAL ESSAY

KINSELLA, John, Shadow Dance, REVIEW

DALEY, Linda & MAGNER, Brigid, Streaming Together: Audiobooks as shared reading, ESSAY

VUCIC, Dženana, Migratory FlightsESSAY

FLEMING, Joan, The Half-Life of Caution, REVIEW

LEY, James, Poetry of the FleshREVIEW

QUAH, Ee Ling, Gender and PowerESSAY

LEANE, Jeanine, Close Encounters, ESSAY

MCHUGH-DILLON, Ruth, Settling Scores: in conversation with Ellen Van NeervenINTERVIEW

LORANGE, Astrid, Writing GenderESSAY

ARALUEN, Evelyn, Reading and Speaking WithESSAY

ROSSMANITH, Kate, On Not Asking ‘Should I Insert Myself in the Text?’, ESSAY

EDMOND, Martin, Fragments of the divineREVIEW

CRAWFORD, Anwen, Peripheral Vision, REVIEW

MARTIN, Toby, From Little Things, REVIEW

WOOLLETT, Laura Elizabeth, Paying to PlayESSAY

BURNS, Shannon, Notes of an Anxious SonREVIEW

COLLEE, Lauren, Living Through AllegoryREVIEW

MENZIES-PIKE, Catriona, As Pluck Would Have It, REVIEW

COX, George, The Never-Ending LetterREVIEW

SAVAGE, Ellena, Can the Baby Speak?, REVIEW

UHLMANN, Anthony, Desiring FictionREVIEW

MCGREGOR, Caitlin, Mad Pride, REVIEW

EARP, Joseph, The Slow Decline of the (Inner) WestREVIEW

SCOTT, Ronnie, What is it Like to be a Book?ESSAY

SAHHAR, Micaela, Death of the Bystander, REVIEW

KASSAB, Yumna, The Rooster and the Watermelon, ESSAY