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1 Settling Scores Settling Scores Ruth McHugh-Dillon Talks to Ellen Van Neerven about Reclaiming Sport Ruth McHugh-Dillon Talks to Ellen Van Neerven about Reclaiming Sport Ruth McHugh-Dillon (interviewer), 2024 single work interview
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , August 2024;

'In the wake of the women’s World Cup, Ruth McHugh-Dillon speaks to Ellen van Neerven about playing sport on Indigenous land and the challenges – of classification and acknowledgement – laid down by their latest book, Personal Score.'

1 Private Desires, Collective Dispossession Ruth McHugh-Dillon , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2024;

— Review of Politica Yumna Kassab , 2024 single work novel

'I was in the middle of Yumna Kassab’s Politica when I had lunch with a friend. What had he been reading? The Iliad. His anger and disgust were palpable—he’d loved The Odyssey but Homer’s epic poem about the Trojan war left him sick. Hostages, revenge, relentless carnage. Wave after wave of bloody violence.' (Introduction)

1 Java Romance Ruth McHugh-Dillon , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2023;

— Review of Sunbirds Mirandi Riwoe , 2023 single work novel
1 Honour Your Mother Ruth McHugh-Dillon , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2023;

— Review of God Forgets About the Poor Peter Polites , 2023 single work novel

'‘You don’t know the first thing about me,’ a mother tells her son, a writer, in the powerful opening chapter of Peter Polites’ God Forgets About the Poor. ‘A son can never see his mother as a woman. You will only see me in relation to you. I have lived a thousand lives before you were even a thought.’ The woman, who we will find out is called Honoured, dismisses the ‘gay things’ her son has written before. Honoured dares him to write her story instead, of migrating from a village in Greece to the suburbs of Western Sydney. People will love it, she tells him. As a former librarian checking out Captain Corelli’s Mandolin for patrons, she knows Australians love to read about war, romance, and migrants’ suffering.' (Introduction)

1 Settling Scores Ruth McHugh-Dillon (interviewer), 2023 single work interview
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , August 2023;

'When I contacted Ellen van Neerven in May to see if they would talk with me about Personal Score, I was working in a bookstore. The new release, with its distinctive earth-toned, soccer ball-patterned cover, was piled in different places in the shop: facing out in Australian Studies, propped up in the window-seat, sitting on the counter. It seemed to migrate as well. One week it was in a NAIDOC display, nestled among First Nations new releases and classics, including van Neerven’s debut story collection Heat and Light. At another point it found a home in our queer writing display. As the Women’s FIFA Football World Cup approached, it could well have found a place next to Sam Kerr’s My Journey to the World Cup or the upbeat board book I Can Be a Matilda.' (Introduction)

1 Weirding English : The New Scripture of the Suburbs in Omar Musa's 'Here Come the Dogs' Ruth McHugh-Dillon , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings , October no. 23 2015; (p. 167-181)

— Review of Here Come the Dogs Omar Musa , 2014 single work novel
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