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Air Supply: Dženana Vucic on sumud and suffocation in Hasib Hourani’s poetry

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Announcing the 2025 CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellows

David Malouf's Surprises: Nicholas Jose on touching and being touched in Malouf’s poetry

Centre for Stories: Pitch Perfect: A Workshop with Dr. James Jiang

I, Was, Am? Nina Culley on zombies and what identity looks like when it’s stripped away

The Fire Dragon, Between Myths and Realities: Quah Ee Ling on the uses of the fire dragon for feminist critique

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

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