Updates
Call for applications: JUNCTURE fellowship program for literary critics
WIth support from the Ian Potter Foundation, the SRB is offering three year-long fellowships to mid-career and established Australian literary critics. Fellowship recipients will be paid $12,000 over twelve months to write eight longform review essays about new works of Australian and international literature. Applications due 1 July. 
New staff at the SRB
We’re absolutely thrilled to share the news of two new staff appointments at the Sydney Review of Books. From 1 July Andrew Brooks¬†and Alice Desmond will start working with our team at the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University.
2019 CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowships
We are offering three fellowships to emerging Australian critics: each fellow will have the opportunity to write three essays on new Australian books for publication on the Sydney Review of Books website in 2019. Fellows will receive editorial support and mentorship as they write these essays, as well as each being paid $3000.
The Public Enemy is a Woman
‘The conflict between scientist and politician at the heart of Ibsen’s¬†An Enemy of the People is replete with allegorical suggestion. The play is, for this reason, easy to oversimplify as a tale of pristine scientific truth versus grubby government coverups. The conflict is better characterised according to competing reactions to a truth already out in the open. In the age of the endless news cycle, Anne-Louise Sarks observes in her Director‚Äôs Note, “the question is not so much will the truth come out ‚Äì as what will we do about the truth that is already out in the open and known?”‘