Bethanie Blanchard

— This review originally appeared on Crikey’s Liticism. // Sometimes when I’m looking for a bar or a gallery or some other place in one of Melbourne’s… Read more “‘She knows the way people speak around here’: Zadie Smith’s NW”

— This essay originally appeared on Crikey’s Liticism. // In one of the most vividly memorable moments of the novel, our young protagonists Jesse and Rachel wander… Read more “Liticism’s Miles Franklin Countdown: Tony Birch’s Blood”

— This essay originally appeared on Crikey’s Liticism. // The first piece of writing I was ever paid for was an essay I wrote for the fourth issue of Kill… Read more “Why don’t you know what you’ll get paid?”

— This essay originally appeared on Crikey’s Liticism. // In the context of the Miles Franklin and its criteria of presenting ‘Australian life in any of its… Read more “Liticism’s Miles Franklin Countdown: Anna Funder’s All That I Am”

— This review originally appeared on Crikey’s Liticism. // Fantastical, absurd, surreal, playful, comic, bizarre, dark. Keret’s short stories have the quality of fables, or the sort… Read more “Stories victorious: Etgar Keret’s Suddenly a Knock on the Door”

— This review originally appeared on Liticism.  // The tangy residue of Twisties on small fingers. The sickly flavour of soft drink so warm it tastes like… Read more “‘I close my eyes and count to one hundred’: Romy Ash’s Floundering”

— This review originally appeared on Crikey’s Liticism. // If narrator Billy Montgomery’s life was an action movie, A Tiger in Eden depicts the time after the credits roll,… Read more “Knowledge of good and evil: Chris Flynn’s A Tiger in Eden”

— This review originally appeared on Crikey’s Liticism. // Mateship with Birds is a reflection on the various tangled forms of desire, love, and lust. In a revealing… Read more “Observations of desire at Cohuna: Carrie Tiffany’s Mateship with Birds”

— This essay originally appeared on Crikey’s Liticism.  // At the moment I’m house-sitting in an apartment in Clifton Hill in Melbourne. It’s a cute little deco… Read more “A place in which to write”

— This essay originally appeared on Crikey’s Liticism. // “‘Tell me one that you liked.’ ‘I liked The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,’ Matilda said. ‘I think… Read more “Returns to… Roald Dahl’s Matilda”