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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 10-16 August 2019 of The Saturday Paper est. 2014 The Saturday Paper
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* Contents derived from the , 2019 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Legacy of Graham Freudenberg, Andy Marks , single work obituary

'War is readily characterised as a failure of reason. But that’s not quite true. It is, in fact, a failure to hear reason. The recent loss of Graham Freudenberg – Australia’s greatest speechwriter – compels us once again to listen. We owe him that.' (Introduction)

Wolf Packi"we have determined", Maxine Beneba Clarke , single work poetry
Oriel Gray’s The Torrents, Steve Dow , single work review

'The Sydney-born playwright Oriel Gray didn’t particularly like journalists but enjoyed journalists’ banter and their constant search for a scoop. When her ABC reporter partner, John Hepworth, joined the Canberra press gallery prior to the 1949 federal election that ousted her beloved prime minister Ben Chifley, Gray discovered journos went to lots of great parties. “Your head spun from unbelievably believable gossip, suppositions and innuendos both political and sexual, as much as it did from the variegated liquor,” she marvelled decades later.' (Introduction)

Angela Savage : Mother of Pearl, Linda Jaivin , single work review
— Review of Mother of Pearl Angela Savage , 2019 single work novel ;

'Mother of Pearl tells the story of a surrogacy from the perspectives of three different women. Meg, a married 39-year-old jeweller from Melbourne, is desperate for a child. Years of IVF treatments have left her bereft, her grief like “a wild animal in a cage”. It’s 2008, the eighth year of south-eastern Australia’s worst drought, and even her once-lush garden is barren, its lawn “straw”, the “ferns like brown bones”.' (Introduction)

Stephanie Wood : Fake, Catie McLeod , single work review
— Review of Fake Stephanie Wood , 2019 single work autobiography ;

'In 2014 the writer Stephanie Wood returned to what she calls the badlands of online dating. She ended up exchanging emails with “Joe”, who seemed gentle, uncomplicated and only a little bit of a dag. The emails developed into a date and then a romance that showed every sign of being love.' (Introduction)

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