Our very own Carody Culver does a deep dive on the sustainable (or not so much) future of fashion in this brilliant review of 'Wear Next: Fashioning the Future' by Clare Press for our friends Sydney Review of Books
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#NEWonSRB : Sydney Review of Books are pleased to publish an edited extract from Abbas El-Zein’s Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and Wars, out now. Published with permission from the author and Upswell Publishing.
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#NEWonSRB : From recycled textiles to photosynthetic sweaters, fashion has ostensibly committed itself to sustainability. But is this just a passing trend? Reviewing Clare Press’ Wear Next, Carody Culver considers fashion’s future, both fast and slow.
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#NEWonSRB : Luke Carman reviews Hospital, Sanya Rushdi’s novel about a linguist’s experience of psychosis and institutionalisation. As Carman argues, Rushdi’s ‘minimalist’ style underlines ‘a contingent relationship to sanity’ to which we are all vulnerable.sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/lotus-w…

The fourth edition of SRBUnarchived returns this week with George Haddad. Previous editions have included pieces by Eda Gunaydin, James Ley, and Melinda Harvey. Subscribe at sydneyreviewofbooks.com/newsletter/ and receive this edition straight to your inbox.

#NEWonSRB : Fiction is big business. In her review of Dan Sinykin’s study of American publishing, Alice Grundy shows the importance of the demythologising effects of Sinykin’s institutionalist approach for both literary scholarship and industrial relations.

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#NEWonSRB : Andy Jackson casts his eye over Jill Jones’ new volume of selected poems, finding in them ‘a voice [that] is perennially thrown and askew, yet determined and questioning, always moving along desire-lines of resistance and curiosity’.

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On publishing, mergers and the relationships between art and business in Sydney Review of Books. With thanks to James Jiang for editorial patience and insight. sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/selling…

Every so often an author claims, or perhaps truly believes, that the translation of their work is superior to the original. Now, thanks to Alice Whitmore's magnificent essay on mycelial translation, I realize criticism, too, at times exceeds its subject. sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/the-art…

#NEWonSRB : In her review of Jennifer Croft’s new novel, Alice Whitmore (@Alice Whitmore) unearths the hidden correspondences between the fungal kingdom and the world of translation.

Read ‘The Art of De-Composition’ via the link below now.
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‘As teachers, researchers, and students of Literature and Creative Writing in Australia we express our acute sorrow and outrage at the loss of innumerable colleagues and peers in our fields in Palestine over the last five months.’

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#NEWonSRB : Through a reading of Jane Carey’s historical study, Jessica White tracks the paths made by Australian women through the settler academy in the ardent pursuit of science.

Read ‘Prevailing Passions’ now on SRB.

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#NEWonSRB : What makes sentient machines tick? In a review of Lorraine Daston’s ‘Rules’, Nicholas Heron traces the history of the algorithm, showing that at stake in the age of AI is our very understanding of rationality.

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#NEWonSRB : Mindy Gill parses the influence of George Eliot on Zadie Smith’s most recent novel, The Fraud – a capacious and non-linear work, the pluralistic ambition of which has put critics ‘off-balance’.

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#NEWonSRB : Drawing on insights on literary criticism, joshua barnes 🇵🇸 argues that recent developments, such as autofiction, should serve to remind us that the novel, fiction, and realism are distinct categories despite their historical convergence.

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Hard to think of someone who has made a deeper contribution to migrant & diaspora literature. This was one of the last pieces Prof. Sneja Gunew produced before she passed early this year.
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