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Author Amal Awad,
single work
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'Across fiction and nonfiction, Palestinian–Australian author Amal Awad refuses to limit her work with reductive expectations. By Ruby Hamad.'
- Brisbane, single work short story
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Travelling Companions, Antoni Jach,
single work
review
— Review of Travelling Companions 2021 single work novel ;'“How to be alone yet to be in company? That,” the unnamed narrator of Travelling Companions tells us, “is the conundrum.” As a train strike throws him into travel limbo with other tourists on the Spanish–French border, he observes: “We are a group but not quite, there is a plausible deniability.” Banding together helps, he notes elsewhere, to “beat down the ontological insecurity”.' (Introduction)
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Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle,
single work
review
— Review of Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life 2021 single work novella ;'What kind of fruit would you be, and why? The unnamed narrator of Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life struggles to answer this question at a group job interview as she stands in a circle with other interviewees. It’s one of many moments that highlight the ways the surreal and absurd stitch life’s fabric.' (Introduction)
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Red Heaven, Nicolas Rothwell,
single work
review
— Review of Red Heaven 2021 single work novel ;'For Virginia Woolf, it was Hamlet. A play the Modernist giant found so resonant and abundant with meaning that she thought an annual re-reading, along with a record of the reader’s shifting responses to the text over time, would form a kind of autobiography – the self coming to know itself through sustained engagement with a work of art.' (Introduction)