Sydney Review of Books

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

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‘Infinite Resources, Secrets, Plans, Schemes’: Beth McLean on the Alchemic Genius of Charmian Clift

Bastards! James Ley on neoliberalism’s degenerates

In Praise of Dourness: Joshua Wodak on fidelity to the cosmic flux

Little Idiosyncrasies and Large Language Models: Rebecca Suter on lonely, quirky humans having chats

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A Playful Re-enactment: Isabelle Li on a day out at Jen Calleja's Fair

The Three-Body Problem: Philip Mead on the cultural orbits of Australian poetry

Tangled Reality: Beth Kearney on Neige Sinno’s multi-perspectival account of sexual violence Review

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