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Culture August 10, 2019
Fake
In 2014 the writer Stephanie Wood returned to what she calls the badlands of online dating. She ended up exchanging emails with “Joe”, who seemed gentle, uncomplicated and only a little bit of a dag. The emails developed into a date and then a romance …
Culture March 09, 2019
Baby
A couple of years ago, millennial pink had its moment as a cultural trend. A delicate shade of blush, it spread from Pantone to Instagram to home decor and became an aesthetic for the selfie-obsessed and supposedly most self-obsessed generation. New …
Culture April 27, 2019
The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone
Felicity McLean’s debut novel, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone, has been described as Picnic at Hanging Rock for a new generation. In Joan Lindsay’s classic, the girls go missing from Appleyard College, while the titular surname in …
Culture February 23, 2019
Beside Myself
Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s debut novel starts by advising, “I don’t know where we’re going.” From there, Beside Myself takes you from Moscow to Berlin to Istanbul on a dizzying trip through time. Alissa – Ali –leaves Germany in …
