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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 13-19 June 2020 of The Saturday Paper est. 2014 The Saturday Paper
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* Contents derived from the 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
There in Spirit, Elizabeth Flux , single work short story
Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter Tony McNamara, Evan Williams , single work column

'Before becoming a playwright, screenwriter and showrunner, Tony McNamara was a stockbroker who had failed year 11 English. Now, after being nominated for an Oscar for The Favourite, he brings his acerbic dialogue and honest storytelling to his new TV series, The Great. “I saw a lot of Pinter, a lot of Mamet, Caryl Churchill … I was struck by how visceral it was, how you could get a rhythm going that really carries an audience along.” By Evan Williams.'

Patrick Allington Rise & Shine, Jack Rowland , single work review
— Review of Rise and Shine Patrick Allington , 2020 single work novel ;

'Patrick Allington’s second novel, Rise & Shine, drops us headfirst into a future in the wake of an ecological catastrophe that claimed the lives of more than eight billion people. The survivors reside in the city-states of Rise and Shine, which are constantly at war with each other, and the bloody footage is broadcast to the populace’s “autoscreens” as the sole source of nourishment. These graphic images of human suffering keep the residents alive as they obsess over the gory details and the military heroes featured.' (Introduction)

Robbie Arnott The Rain Heron, Khalid Warsame , single work review
— Review of The Rain Heron Robbie Arnott , 2020 single work novel ;

'Set in an unnamed country that has recently undergone a violent coup, Robbie Arnott’s The Rain Heron is a novel of a land suffused with wild animal magic: a heron that can create vast storms; a species of squid whose ink has miraculous properties and must be harvested through sanguine ritual. Ren, seeking to escape the world, has for the past half-decade made her home in a small, wild corner of this place. Soon, though, her isolation is disturbed by a group of soldiers led by the charismatic and ruthless Lieutenant Harker. The soldiers are on a search for a rain heron, thought by many to be a myth. Harker, sensing that Ren knows more than she’s letting on, begins a campaign of terror; her coercion of Ren takes the form of strategic despoliation of the wilderness – Ren’s home. Ren is shocked by the soldier’s callousness: “Ren had seen the way she stalked around the mountain, unmoved by the trees, the air, the staggering slopes and the cellophane streams, the huge and harsh beauty of it all. For Harker, the mountain was no different to a car park, an office, the bottom of the ocean; she would use it, take what she needed, burn it down, dance gracefully in the ashes and never think of it again.”' (Introduction)

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