— This essay originally appeared in SPOOK Magazine. // You already know how this story ends so I’ll begin ten minutes before the climax. We’re three or… Read more “Chairs Up For The Darts: On Darts Culture in Australia”

— This review originally appeared in the Weekend Australian.  // As with much of what Lena Dunham creates, her memoir Not That Kind of Girl was culturally significant almost… Read more “Review: Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind Of Girl”

— This review originally appeared in The Weekend Australian. // Since 2011, Teju Cole has been publishing dispatches from the land in which he grew up, Nigeria,… Read more “Review: Teju Cole’s Every Day Is For The Thief”

— This essay originally appeared in The Lifted Brow. // “We were at a party, you and I, in celebration of a long-forgotten cause for joy.” A… Read more “Literature, Sex and Death: On Reading Supervert’s Necrophilia Variations.”

  – This piece originally appeared in The Weekend Australian. // It doesn’t have the same aphoristic ring as judging by their cover, but should we judge… Read more “Review: Zadie Smith’s Embassy of Cambodia – Finding beauty in the smallest circle”

— This piece originally appeared in Meanjin.  // I read once that vertigo is less about the fear of falling than the desire to fall. An overwhelming… Read more “Meanjin Tournament of Books: Breath vs Sea Hearts”

— This interview originally appeared as part of the Wheeler Centre’s Working With Words Series. Bethanie Blanchard is Crikey’s literary blogger, at Liticism, and a regular contributor to Guardian Australia.… Read more “Interview: Working with Words”

— This piece originally appeared as an op ed in The Sunday Age. // There had been whispers among my writer friends that Private Media, publisher of Crikey,… Read more “Publications should not profit from scribes willing to work for nothing”