AustLit

'At Queensland Theatre, Hannah Belanszky’s play don’t ask what the bird look like explores the cost of hiding from past traumas. By Yen-Rong Wong.'

'Remember the Shakespeare you had to read in high school? Did you love it or hate it, or sit somewhere in between? Personally speaking, I’m Macbeth and a heart emoji. I suspect when the teenage Chris Womersley read Romeo and Juliet, he underscored Mercutio’s exasperated cry, “A plague o’ both your houses!”' (Introduction)   

'Nadine J. Cohen’s debut novel, Everyone and Everything, brings together the drama of a young woman’s breakdown with comedy reminiscent of Woody Allen or Nora Ephron. Anxiety, for instance, “arrived without warning and then wouldn’t leave. Like the Kardashians.” Cohen manages the balancing act of her dramedy through the appealing cipher of her first-person female narrator, Yael Silver, who is neurotic and genuinely tested by life, but also spirited and well-dressed.' (Introduction)