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The Leading Role of Simple Things: Irma Gold's Two Steps Forward

Review by Tristan Foster Australia is a big country but a small place, so when Nam Le’s 2008 short story collection The Boat won nearly every major literary prize in …

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A Worthy Mirror of Reality: Tim Richards' Thought Crimes

Review by Ben Carmichael There are those who maintain that the principal aesthetic/moral aim of literature is ‘to hold a mirror up to reality’. Tim Richards’ Thought Crimes certainly does …

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Everything is as it should be: Jessica Au's Cargo

Review by Bel Woods If Puberty Blues was one extreme of teenage beach culture, Cargo is another. It’s the loners; the kids who mature quietly at the fringes, drift, dip their toes into the …

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The White Silence after the Full-stop: Jean-Christophe Valtat's 03

Review by Ben Carmichael The unnamed narrator of Jean-Christophe Valtat’s 03 is a seething mind. His thoughts, which comprise the novella’s uninterrupted, paragraphless soliloquy, obsess over such topics typical to …

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The Circumstances of a Book: Ed Byrne’s Poems from the City

Review by Geoff Page It’s rare that the circumstances of a book’s publication are more interesting than the book itself but, sadly, this is the case with Ed Byrne’s Poems …

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Hatton's Hunger: Stu Hatton's How To Be Hungry

Review by Mark William Jackson Bukowski once said, ‘Don’t play with madness, madness doesn’t play.’  Likewise, don’t play with words unless you know what you’re doing. Stu Hatton knows what …

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