Ashley Kalagian Blunt

Ashley Kalagian Blunt

Ashley Kalagian Blunt is a Sydney-based author. Her first book, My Name Is Revenge, was shortlisted for the 2019 Woollahra Digital Literary Award and was a finalist in the 2018 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award. Her writing appears in Griffith Review, Westerly, the Australian, Kill Your Darlings, and more. Ashley has appeared at Sydney Writers’ Festival, Story Club, and the National Young Writers’ Festival.

All essays by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

Review: Ashley Kalagian Blunton Fiona Wright
  • The World Was Whole by Fiona Wright Giramondo Publishing
    256pp
    Published October, 2018
    ISBN 9781925336979

Comfortable and Comforted: The World Was Whole by Fiona Wright

This is a book about the complexities of home, about being unhomed, about the body as home, and about the spaces we work to make home, our dwellings and our neighbourhoods. When life is marred by unbelonging and grief, it is the habits and routines of being homed that bring comfort and even joy.
May. 2019 • • •
Review: Ashley Kalagian Blunton Norman Naimark
  • Genocide A World History cover
  • Genocide: A World History by Norman Naimark Oxford University Press
    192pp
    Published March, 2017
    ISBN 9780199765270

The Crime of Crimes: Genocide: A World History

Genocide is distinct from broader terms such as war crimes and crimes against humanity. In Genocide: A World History, Naimark reviews cases of genocide dating to the ancient world, working through the warrior genocides committed by the Crusaders and the Mongols, to the Spanish conquest of the Americas, to what he terms the ‘settler’ genocides that occurred in North America, Africa and Australia.’
Aug. 2017 •