“On this panel you have three women who are standing up to the Crown, standing up to the law, [and] standing up to the church. That’s beautiful, that’s what we share as writers.”
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It is a treasure to peel back a layer of someone’s brain and know that it functions like everyone else’s.
Cohen highlights how so many of the books people claim fall into this category, including her own, are in fact, works of autofiction. She emphasises that the pervasion of these stories in contemporary literary fiction is perhaps more telling of the general state of women’s mental health rather than a simple aesthetic or fad.
The Sydney Writers Festival hosted a panel which was facilitated by Hamish Macdonald, and featured Alisa Sopova, John Lyons, Anastasia Taylor-Lind and Julian Borger.
For an artist famous for his discreteness, this exhibition’s celebration of Banksy’s oeuvre feels more ironic than iconic.
Content warning: mentions of sexual assault David Ireland’s Ulster American cannot be easily summarised, though it certainly provokes. The meta-theatrical…
Furiosa is a prequel but the film supersedes this label as it does not just contain ‘what happened before’ Fury Road in the Mad Max timeline. I would go as far to argue that they are one film because they depict one story — Furiosa’s story.
Are you a loud gay or a quiet gay? This is the question that 2024’s Queer Revue dares not to…
While the classic question of the whodunnit is, as the name suggests, ‘who did it?’, Let’s Kill Agatha Christie instead…
Villeneuve films Narwal’s past as if her pain is raw: no detail is spared from the blinding sun’s glare, or the glow of burning flesh. ‘Incendies’, French for ‘scorched’, becomes a motif of reignited family ties and inextinguishable trauma.