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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... December 2022 of Sydney Review of Books est. 2013 Sydney Review of Books
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2022 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
City Mouse, Country Mouse, James Ley , single work review
— Review of My Father and Other Animals : How I Took on the Family Farm Sam Vincent , 2022 single work autobiography ; Growing Up in Country Australia 2022 anthology autobiography ;
Have Fun, Dan Dixon , single work review
— Review of What Fear Was Ben Walter , 2022 selected work short story ; The Teeth of a Slow Machine Andrew Roff , 2022 selected work short story ; If You're Happy Fiona Robertson , 2022 selected work short story ;

'I am looking for something to say about the short story as a category, something to distinguish it, and my mind alights on the word ‘fun’. Is it possible, I wonder, that the short story permits the author to play, to have fun, in a way that other forms do not? Do we tend to ignore this because the word ‘fun’ is difficult to fit into an aesthetic claim, because the concept itself seems to resist being aestheticised, its monosyllabic punchiness evoking childish play or adult condescension that dodges the analytical eye? It was just a bit of fun. Don’t you know how to have fun? This isn’t fun.'  (Introduction)   
Sophie Cunningham’s Orbits, Gurmeet Kaur , single work review
— Review of This Devastating Fever Sophie Cunningham , 2022 single work novel ;

'In Sophie Cunningham’s This Devastating Fever, tiny comets blaze across the pages. Connecting disparate histories, their orbits disrupt the order of time, a function of the novel’s non-linear form.'  
‘Tonality Is a Ghost’, Imogen Dewey , single work review
— Review of Fugitive Simon Tedeschi , 2022 single work prose ;

'There’s this thing you hear in music – or, if I’m trying for precision, in the silences in music. It’s a reaching, a stretching. There’s a suspended wonder to it; a lazy sensuality, sometimes. It’s probably in lots of places if you know what to listen for, but I hear it most in classical music, since that is where I learned to listen, to count, and to keep time. And I hear it in Simon Tedeschi’s intimate book of fragments, Fugitive.' (Introduction)   
All Futures Are Possible, Patrick Allington , single work review
— Review of Song of Less Joan Fleming , 2022 selected work poetry ; Every Version of You Grace Chan , 2022 single work novel ;

'Early in Grace Chan’s novel Every Version of You, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin pass a monument erected at Melbourne’s Federation Square that commemorates the deaths caused by a US airstrike in 2041 – the attack, by now, a distant memory. At one point in Joan Fleming’s verse novel Song of Less, a character called Cousin Groundpigeon says ‘Remember countries?’ ' (Introduction)   
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