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Menu logo Created with Sketch. EssaysReviewsInterviewsAbout SRBNewsletterDonate to the SRBThe Circular Projects and topicsBrowse by writer logo Created with Sketch. Review: May Ngoon Don Mee Choi See You At The DMZ As I read DMZ Colony, I think about how the translating work undertaken by Don Mee Choi could be a blueprint for my own work, for my father’s story. Read essay → DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi Wave Books152ppPublished April 2020ISBN: 9781940696959 Essay: James Leyon Scott Morrison The Parable of the Amen Snorter and the Rotten Fish The political implications of Morrison’s uncommon religion have inevitably been the subject of a good deal of discussion and a certain amount of speculation. Read essay → Review: Jeanine Leaneon First Nations Speculative Fiction Returning to Our Futures 'This All Come Back Now is an act of radical subversion and intellectual sovereignty.' Read essay → This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction by Mykaela Saunders (ed.) UQPPublished May 2022ISBN: 9780702265662 Review: Oliver Reesonon Yves Rees Notness By setting transness apart through writing notness, I worry we are fracturing ourselves to the point of total disassociation. Read essay → All About Yves: Notes from a Transition by Yves Rees Allen & Unwin320ppPublished August 2021ISBN: 9781760879310 New on the SRB: James Leyon Scott Morrison Oliver Reesonon Yves Rees Jeanine Leaneon First Nations Speculative Fiction May Ngoon Don Mee Choi Stuart Rolloon Jeff Sparrow Oliver Molon Michael Winkler Beth Driscollon Sally Rooney Andrew Brookson Fred Moten and Stefano Harney Lauren Carroll Harrison digital art James Leyon Scott Morrison Oliver Reesonon Yves Rees Jeanine Leaneon First Nations Speculative Fiction May Ngoon Don Mee Choi Stuart Rolloon Jeff Sparrow Oliver Molon Michael Winkler Beth Driscollon Sally Rooney Andrew Brookson Fred Moten and Stefano Harney Lauren Carroll Harrison digital art Essay: James Leyon Scott Morrison The Parable of the Amen Snorter and the Rotten Fish Ultimately, it is of little consequence whether or not Morrison is genuine in his religious beliefs. He probably is. May. 2022 • Review: Oliver Reesonon Yves Rees All About Yves: Notes from a Transition by Yves Rees Allen & Unwin320ppPublished August 2021ISBN: 9781760879310 Notness ‘This idea of difference, reinforcing difference through representation, and how this relates to social power, is what I want to use this book as an opportunity to think more about.’ May. 2022 • Australian literature • Memoir • Non-fiction Juncture Review: Jeanine Leaneon First Nations Speculative Fiction This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction by Mykaela Saunders (ed.) UQPPublished May 2022ISBN: 9780702265662 Returning to Our Futures What the First Nations writers in This All Come Back Now reveal is that the only civilization in need of saving is the present western capitalist one – for its capacity to self-destruct and for its inability to listen. May. 2022 • Australian literature • Fiction • First Nations literatures • Speculative fiction • Juncture Juncture Review: May Ngoon Don Mee Choi DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi Wave Books152ppPublished April 2020ISBN: 9781940696959 See You At The DMZ We can view Don Mee Choi as a kind of bricoleur in DMZ Colony; a quilt maker, image assembler, improviser, who uses multiple tools – research, fiction, memoir – to assemble the beginnings of an archive. May. 2022 • • Juncture Review: Stuart Rolloon Jeff Sparrow Crimes Against Nature by Jeff Sparrow Scribe240ppPublished November 2021ISBN: 9781922310705 Better Nature This difference between Sparrow and many other progressive commentators has been demonstrated recently in his nuanced coverage of pandemic politics, of the left assent to hyperinflated surveillance and policing power, and the class-element that comes embedded in Covid-19 policy responses. He clearly retains a strong belief that minds can be changed through engagement, empathy, well-reasoned argumentation, and, most importantly, material support for people’s wellbeing. May. 2022 • Australian literature • Non-fiction • Politics Review: Oliver Molon Michael Winkler Grimmish by Michael Winkler Puncher and Wattmann2022ISBN: 9781922571274 Literature to Save Us It is Winkler’s attempt to document Grim’s unfathomable life – to indirectly, absorb and transform some of his pain – that allows us, humbly, to see the beauty and validity in all lives, and to better see our own. May. 2022 • Australian literature • Fiction Review: Beth Driscollon Sally Rooney Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney Faber / Allen & Unwin352ppPublished October 2022ISBN: 9780571365425 The Aesthetic Conduct of Sally Rooney’s Readers What are the aesthetic possibilities offered by Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney’s blockbuster 2021 novel? To answer this question, we might look at the novel’s plot, characters, themes, style, narrative form. But we might also, inspired by a pragmatic view of art, look at how readers have made use of the novel. May. 2022 • Fiction Review: Andrew Brookson Fred Moten and Stefano Harney All Incomplete by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten Minor Compositions182ppPublished June 2021ISBN: 9781570273780 Always Incomplete: A Mixtape after Moten and Harney We continue to study and dance and sing and eat in order that we might remind each other of our own incompleteness and continue to assemble again and again and again. Or we make a mixtape so that we might feel the intensity of pleasure, and in doing so find our way back to the principle of incompletion – a small reminder that undercommon sociality cannot be stilled by enclosure of flesh and land that is the imposition of private property. May. 2022 • Non-fiction • Philosophy and critical theory  Essay: Lauren Carroll Harrison digital art The Digital Desert How alienating, how jarring, to be made aware that you’re one step away from a cascading world of ones and zeros instead of live, decaying art objects. Get free of queues and tickets and blood-sugar crashes, but can’t shake the feeling that a high-quality colour book reproduction would offer a superior form of viewing. Wonder if Walter Benjamin could have dreamed of such a flaccid form of artistic replication as a virtual gallery tour. May. 2022 • Art and artists • COVID-19 • Publishing Updates & Events Emerging Critics 2022 a new SRB anthology The Circular Emerging Critics 2022 a new SRB anthology The Circular Update: Emerging Critics 2022 Callout: SRB Emerging Critics 2022 The Sydney Review of Books invites applications for the 2022 CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowships.Applications close at 11:59pm on Monday 13 June 2022. May. 2022 • Update: a new SRB anthology Open Secrets: Essays on the Writing Life by Catriona Menzies-Pike (editor) Sydney Review of Books272 pagesPublished May 2022ISBN: 9780648062165Pre-order now Open Secrets: Essays on the Writing Life The lives of writers are a topic of perennial fascination to readers – and indeed to other writers. And yet the writer at work is often a mythologised figure, distant from the cares of the day. In Open Secrets Australian writers reflect upon the material conditions that give rise to their writing practice. Apr. 2022 • Update: The Circular The Circular Launched in October 2021, The Circular is a weekly newsletter from the SRB that keeps the best new Australian non-fiction in circulation; essays, interviews, reviews, features and more. Each week we dispatch a newsletter highlighting interesting, useful and surprising non-fiction published by and about Australian writers. Oct. 2021 • From the SRB archives: Dan Dixonon Scott Morrison Peta MurrayFrancesca Rendle-Shorton queer kinship Michael Winkleron Luke Stegemann Jeanine Leaneon Evelyn Araluen Andrew BrooksTom Melickon the spreadsheet Dan Dixonon Scott Morrison Peta MurrayFrancesca Rendle-Shorton queer kinship Michael Winkleron Luke Stegemann Jeanine Leaneon Evelyn Araluen Andrew BrooksTom Melickon the spreadsheet Emerging Critics 2021 Review: Dan Dixonon Scott Morrison The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison by Sean Kelly Black Inc.304ppPublished November 2021ISBN: 9781760643119 Nothing Obscure The Game distinguishes itself because Kelly… rejects the notion that personhood is best understood in terms of a surface-depth model. In fact, Kelly is perpetually suspicious of the view that politicians (or people) consist of two divisible parts – a performance and a private self to which the performance obliquely refers. Feb. 2022 • Australian literature • Non-fiction • Politics • Emerging Critics 2021 Essay: Peta MurrayFrancesca Rendle-Shorton queer kinship Kin-as-Ethics: experiments in un/authorised queer essay practice As I begin to write kin and ethics a dear writing friend corresponds with me in messages about writing and love and rallying and the idea of being ‘inside the between’ when we come close how there is a ‘turning there’ how it is ‘the both of us’ and how the work of language of prepositions and prepositional thinking opens derring-do to a means of queering and transing language that becomes possible. Oct. 2021 • Kinship and care Review: Michael Winkleron Luke Stegemann Amnesia Road: Landscape, Violence and Memory by Luke Stegemann NewSouth320ppPublished March 2021ISBN 9781742236728 Blood Truths I am perplexed by the space Stegemann gives to lashing political progressives, but I never doubt his sincerity. It would have been easier for him to bark the orthodoxy as it is understood by those people most likely to be his readers. And perhaps his views are closer to some progressive First Nations thinking than might be comfortable for those of us fretting away in the urban centres. Jun. 2021 • Australian literature • Non-fiction Juncture Review: Jeanine Leaneon Evelyn Araluen Drop Bear by Evelyn Araluen UQP112 ppPublished March 2021ISBN 9780702263187 Staring Back In Araluen’s work spirits and ghosts speak from beyond, above and below the layers of colonial time to remind us of past in present and present in past intertwined and unresolved. Jun. 2021 • Australian literature • First Nations literatures • Poetry • Juncture Technology Essay: Andrew BrooksTom Melickon the spreadsheet University.xlsx In the heat of this unfolding crisis, vice-chancellors accidentally reveal the underlying logics of the spreadsheet. Budgets must be reduced, savings must be made; they tell us this as they consult the spreadsheet that surrounds them like a moat. The spreadsheet contains hard data, raw data, objective truths, they say. The numbers don’t lie. But the document is as much an operation of judgement as it is one of fiscal analysis; the spreadsheet obscures as much as it reveals. Dec. 2020 • The university  • Work • Technology logo Created with Sketch. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands on which we work, the Burramattagal people of the Darug nation, and pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded, and the struggles for justice are ongoing. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands this digital platform reaches. Subscribe to our free newsletter for weekly updates from the SRB: Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the SRB to help us maintain a vigorous program with no paywall. 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