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1 The Vessel of Robert Crofts: Autobiographical Fiction as a Palimpsest Jennifer Popa , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 33 no. 1 2019; (p. 174-176)

— Review of The Passage of Love Alex Miller , 2017 single work novel

'The Passage of Love opens with first-person modern-day Robert Crofts, who at the end of his career as a writer is struggling to find the creative impulse for his next book. He visits a women's prison to give a talk and is captivated by a particular inmate who explains his previous work to him, saying, "I thought he was explaining himself to his mother as a way of explaining himself to himself" (12). This is an on-ramp to what the bulk of the novel will grapple with: Robert Crofts telling himself his own story.' (Introduction)

1 In the Quiet Company of a Dreamer Jennifer Popa , 2016 single work single work essay
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 30 no. 1 2016; (p. 230-231)

— Review of Alfonso Félix Calviño , 2013 single work novel

'The four walls he had washed and painted twice as a gesture of friendship would have captured, as a mirror would, his frustration at trying to sew on a button, or trying not to scorch a new shirt; his clumsy attempts at cooking dinner with half of the ingredients missing until he trained himself to write a shopping list before going shopping; his relentless learning and relearning of English words; his chores of washing, cleaning, daily bed-making, and weekly changing of the bed sheets. (33) For the reader, the tangible objects in Alfonso's home take center stage: the carrots and potatoes he is cooking for dinner, the cabinets he restores, and the telephone that does not ring.' (Publication abstract)

1 Eight Broken and the Unspoken : A Peephole into a Love Affair with China Jennifer Popa , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 29 no. 1 2015; (p. 233-235)

— Review of Bapo Nicholas Jose , 2014 selected work short story
1 Cairo by Louis Armand Jennifer Popa , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 28 no. 2 2014; (p. 524-526)

— Review of Cairo Louis Armand , 2014 single work novel
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