'Drawing on the harsh realities of drought and flood, STC’s production of Angus Cerini’s Into the Shimmering World is an exploration of silent shame and suffering.'
'The story of modern Australia is one of migration, adaptation and an ongoing struggle over the idea of an “Australian identity”. The characters in award-winning poet and novelist Ouyang Yu’s short story collection, The White Cockatoo Flowers: Stories, embody these complexities, most prominently through an exploration of the intricacies of language, translation and cultural expectation.' (Introduction)
'The Work is the debut novel of Bri Lee, an accomplished nonfiction writer and public intellectual. It’s set between Sydney and Manhattan, in a milieu where art matters but money rules. It offers up steamy sex and cold characters along with some great lines (“Life had clearly been generous to Sophie, but not kind”) and some absolute clunkers (“When some cunt’s passing offered to fast-track you a few rungs up the ladder of life, you didn’t look a dead gift horse in the mouth”). Relationships in The Work are highly transactional across a range of currencies – sex, prestige, actual money – and yet true love conquers all.' (Introduction)
