'Melbourne Theatre Company’s nuanced and intelligent production of Emma Mary Hall’s award-winning World Problems shifts from a real past into an imagined future. By Robert Reid.'
'Drawing a distinction between genre fiction and literary fiction has come to seem like a reactionary gesture. Likewise, classifying a novel as romance can no longer be regarded as a pejorative act. However, when it comes to Melissa Goode’s debut novel, Ordinary Human Love, it can be useful for readers to know we are firmly in the territory of generic – one might indeed even say “ordinary” – romance.' (Introduction)
'How do you write a memoir when your memories have been taken? This question is the driving force in poet Anna Jacobson’s memoir, How to Knit a Human.' (Introduction)
