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When he asked about work, I told him I was a writer. ‘Ah ye-as,’ he said, and I took this

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I was raised in a house where inconspicuous wards were placed in every room to protect us against the threat

… read more The Ghosts of Eleanor Dark

Like most authors, I do almost anything for money, but the thought of engaging with a bunch of young people

… read more Keep Going, Get Better || Luke Carman

To summarize violently: the transcendent, essentialist reading of White does him a great disservice. There is no meaningful opposition between

… read more Rethinking Voss || Jonathan Dunk

Aboriginal writing is different. Not in any innate primitivist sense, it’s just doing different things, following different rules and patterns

… read more Theses on Colonial Antinomy || Jonathan Dunk

It’s been ubiquitously noted that the publication of Jack Cox’s Dodge Rose in 2016 bucked a number of Auslit publication

… read more Dodge Rose: Heretical Modernism by Jonathan Dunk

I don’t read fiction about illness much. I know that’s not what you expected, as it goes directly against the

… read more Neurological Illness in Australian Fiction

Words || Katerina Bryant  “Sometimes pus, sometimes a poem… but always pain.” —Yehuda Amichai, as quoted in Shaping the Fractured

… read more Distilling Illness in ‘Shaping the Fractured Self’