Sydney Review of Books

Publishing longform criticism and essays by Australia's best writers since 2013. Online and in Parramatta.

The Outer Spaces of Fiction: Lauren Collee on writers going boldly where no humans have gone before

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Living it Line by Line: Hossein Asgari and Kim Cheng Boey on writing fiction about poets INTERVIEW

The Poet Eaters: Alice Allan and James Jiang on poetry reviewing ten years after ‘The Poet Tasters’ INTERVIEW

Good Posture: Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen on Pitaya Chin’s critique of performative morality REVIEW

The Shadow and the Acolyte: Joseph Steinberg on the origins of Australian creative writing programs ESSAY

Woman Alone: Jumaana Abdu on solitude and the paradox of freedom

Shadow Texts: Joan Fleming on reframing the archive REVIEW

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