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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 12-18 August 2017 of The Saturday Paper est. 2014 The Saturday Paper
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* Contents derived from the , 2017 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake : China Girl, Helen Razer , single work essay

'Jane Campion’s latest foray into television, while featuring admirable performances, sees the writer–director stray too far from what she does best. '

Anna George : The Lone Child, LS , single work essay

'Anna George’s first book was the well-regarded crime thriller What Came Before. Her new novel, The Lone Child, is less criminal and more psychological in focus, but it’s just as thrilling. It’s a story about the effects of motherhood and the moral choices made while under intense psychological pressure.' (Introduction)

Shaun Prescott The Town, ZC , single work essay

'The Town is Shaun Prescott’s full-length fiction debut and the sophomore novel from The Lifted Brow – the avant-garde Australian literary mag that, since moving into trade publishing last year, has championed writers whose ideas and execution run against the grain of commercial literary trends. Take this book: a deep dive into weirdness that reads like a blend of Donald Horne and García Márquez – although it contains little of the magic realist’s joie de vivre. Call it magical fatalism.' (Introduction)

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