Everything is Somehow AlikeKyle Chayka’s Filterworld proposes to examine what happens to aesthetic experience in a culture dominated by algorithms. Reviewing Chayka’s book, Catriona Menzies-Pike finds its solutions flawed yet indicative of our wider structural blindspots.5 May. 2024
As Pluck Would Have It What do Barbie and the Oxford English Dictionary have in common? In this review of Pip Williams’ fiction, Catriona Menzies-Pike catalogues the tropes by which popular feminism sells women short.16 Oct. 2023
Fool's GoldIn the blurb-saturated present, authors can decry blurbs as corrupt and silly all they like. When they publish new books, however, they will still be obliged to solicit blurbs, and most will provide them for friends and colleagues on request.19 Mar. 2023
Critic Swallows BookTo call into question the literary value of Dalton’s fiction is not to disqualify the pleasure and imaginative release that hundreds of thousands of readers have found in his novels, especially Boy Swallows Universe; it is to take that popularity15 May. 2022
A Fluctuating Charm: An Uncertain GraceAn Uncertain Grace is a strange, daring and clever novel and Kneen’s openness to connections that many other novelists never dream of making is exhilarating. Her characters wreck themselves with sex and science as they seek ways to live with extin...6 July. 2017
James Bradley: Fitting the Pieces Together‘Although it looks like you write one book and then another and then another, the reality is much messier than that, and the books are really part of a larger process that’s surprisingly difficult to understand when you’re in the middle of it.’ Ja...15 June. 2016
Writing, Editing: An Interview with Ellen van Neerven‘I think Indigenous writers kind of need each other. I feel that more and more, that sense of camaraderie and community. We challenge each other to write better. It is sometimes hard when you’re perhaps the only black writer on a festival or you’r...23 Oct. 2015
Sofie Laguna: ‘There Is No Reader In The Room’‘I am meant to be a writer– but it is the actor in me who writes. What I mean by that is that I joyfully inhabit the voice of a character as if I’m playing that character.’ Miles Franklin winner Sofie Laguna speaks to the SRB about her fiction an18 Sept. 2015