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Sparked by concerns about the dwindling space for literary criticism in Australian media, the Sydney Review of Books was founded by the Writing and Society Research Centre at UWS in January 2013 as an online review site focusing on Australian writers and writing.
Sydney Review of Books | A review site focussing on Australian writers & writing
3d ago
Upcoming appearances with Parramatta's first Laureate in Literature, Yumna Kassab.
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Sydney Review of Books | A review site focussing on Australian writers & writing
3d ago
What do critics mean by tone? Is it a rhetorical attitude or an atmospheric quality? In his review of two recent studies, Thomas H. Ford shows how writing about tone sets the tone of a broader debate about the uses of literary criticism.
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1w ago
In this essay, Anwen Crawford reflects on being a latecomer to the sport that united her family: cricket. From scorebooks and dictionaries to journalism to on-field protest messages, Crawford tallies the many forms that cricket writing can take.
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2M ago
About three-quarters through Acrobat Music: New & Selected Poems, Jill Jones nudges the reader knowingly in the ribs. ‘Difficult Poem’...
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Sydney Review of Books | A review site focussing on Australian writers & writing
2M ago
Since the 1980s, fiction has become big business. In her review of Dan Sinykin’s wide-ranging study of American publishing, Alice Grundy argues for the importance of the demythologising effects of Sinykin’s institutionalist approach for both literary scholarship and industrial relations.
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2M ago
In her review of Jennifer Croft’s new novel, Alice Whitmore unearths the hidden correspondences between the fungal kingdom and the world of translation.
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2M ago
This open letter contains a statement by teachers, researchers, and students connected to literature and creative writing in Australian universities regarding colleagues and peers in Palestine.
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2M ago
What makes sentient machines tick? In a review of Lorraine Daston’s ‘Rules’, Nicholas Heron traces the history of the algorithm, showing that at stake in the age of AI is our very understanding of rationality.
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2M ago
Through a reading of Jane Carey’s historical study, Jessica White tracks the paths made by Australian women through the settler academy in the ardent pursuit of science.
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2M ago
Mindy Gill parses the influence of George Eliot on Zadie Smith’s most recent novel, The Fraud – a capacious and non-linear work, the pluralistic ambition of which has put critics ‘off-balance’
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