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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 30 May 2021 of The New York Times Book Review The New York Times Book Review
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As the World Burns, Damien Cave , single work review
— Review of The Living Sea of Waking Dreams Richard Flanagan , 2020 single work novel ;

'When the characters in Richard Flanagan’s intriguing new novel look at their phones, the sentences run on without punctuation. It’s a stylistic, reader-focused tic: We join the uninterrupted stream of photos and headlines from the catastrophic wildfires that scorched Australia a little over a year ago. We glide past “incinerated kangaroos in fetal clutches of fencing wire charred koalas burnt bloated cattle on their backs.”' (Introduction)

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