Review | Winter
This is a review of Ali Smith’s Winter When we look back on right now – 2017, nearly Christmas, in the midst of one of the…
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A Critical Response to Paul Dalla Rosa’s ‘Day Spa’
In this ideas piece, Cameron Colwell looks at how longform fiction expands the scope for more nuanced exploration of important topics. In its latest issue,…
Me, You, And Writing This Review
Rebecca Varcoe on Jennifer Down’s Pulse Points, and the complexity of critiquing the work of a person who exists in your real life too. It’s really…
Review | No Way! Okay, Fine
This is a review of Brodie Lancaster’s No Way! Okay, Fine We can’t help but view the world through a lens of popular culture –…
Down The Hume, by Peter Polites
Cameron Colwell reviews Peter Polite’s debut novel Down The Hume. Peter Polites’ Down the Hume is a rough and occasionally vicious exploration of Western Sydney, an…
Review | Quantum Words Festival
This is a review of the inaugural Quantum Words Festival, by Sebastian Gonzalez. In early November the NSW Writer’s Centre hosted the inaugural Quantum Words Festival…
The Zen Kitchen
This is a review of Adam Liaw’s The Zen Kitchen: Easy Japanese Recipes for Home Cooks. Too often cookbooks are treated as instruction manuals – a…
Review – Weird Sydney
This is a review of NSW Writer’s Centre’s live event, Weird Sydney. Woolahra Library was gifted an intriguing set of presentations on the weird and wonderful…
Review – Their Brilliant Careers
This is a review of Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers by Ryan O’Neill. My first encounter with Ryan O Neill’s Their Brilliant Careers:…
Review | A Loving, Faithful Animal
This is a review, of Josephine Rowe’s A Loving, Faithful Animal. Josephine Rowe’s debut novel, A loving, faithful animal, should be consumed slowly and thoughtfully. Each sentence,…