Thuy On

Thuy On is a Melbourne-based freelance arts journalist/critic. She's written for a variety of publications including The Australian, the Saturday Paper, Books+Publishing, The Age/SMH, A_ustralian Book Review_ and ArtsHub. She's also the books editor of The Big Issue. Her collection of poetry, Turbulence, was published in March 2020 by UWAP. Photo credit: Leah Jing.

Works By Thuy On

Coming of Age on Impulse
Small Joys of Real Life is a quintessentially Melbourne book, with Richards’ characters not straying far from the city and the inner-north postcodes: from share houses to public swimming pools, pubs to bars.
24 Oct. 2021
Off-Kilter
Her vision and writing of the female experience is curious and expansive, conveyed as it is through these short fictions that take in the messiness of life and arbitrariness of death.
15 Sept. 2021
Secret Doors
There isn’t a neat ending to The Gaps, for a pat resolution would go against the grain of the book.
7 July. 2021
Grotesque Mannequins
By having Tussaud pit her wits against men determined to sideline or outmanoeuvre her, Lyons-Lee has herself fashioned a protagonist as wily as any conjurer.
23 May. 2021
The Cold Bubble of Culture
One summer evening, as fires rage elsewhere in the country, three women at different stages of life are sequestered in the plush chill of the Melbourne Theatre Company watching Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days.
8 Mar. 2021
The Toss of the Waves
As A Jealous Tide continues, MacDonald abandons the apparatus of realism in favour of a more playful and elaborate approach. The contours of time and place erode. The narrator’s watery fancies of libraries turning into vessels become hard to disti...
6 Dec. 2020
Catalytic Threads
Ordinary matter is what we are made of – everything we can see or detect with telescopes or microscopes or our own eyes. Such a wide descriptive ambit makes it an apposite title for this second collection of fiction by Brisbane-based Laura Elvery,...
12 Nov. 2020
Free Reading
This is an author who has long been interested in the nexus between publishing and technology; Ex Libris is the cumulative, and – arguably – the most ambitious result of all his hybrid ventures.
7 Oct. 2020

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Thuy On

Works By Thuy On

Coming of Age on Impulse

Off-Kilter

Secret Doors

Grotesque Mannequins

The Cold Bubble of Culture

The Toss of the Waves

Catalytic Threads

Free Reading