New: Sydney Review of Books July '26 – Jessica White's 'Silence is my Habitat' – by Adele Dumont

New: Sydney Review of Books July '26 – Jessica White's 'Silence is my Habitat' – by Adele Dumont

Follow to read this terrific featured review (that foreshadows Jessica's next book project, long in the making but due in 2027 with Upswell).

https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/

It is so satisfying in an age of reduced writing about writing (and books) to read such an extended work about Jessica White and her book projects.

If you are not a regular reader of Sydney Review of Books I highly recommend signing up for the newsletter that captures all new reviews and features and gives access to the back catalogue.

In my six years of releasing Upswell books, I have been lucky enough to score eleven longform reviews in SRB:

  • Imaginative Possession by Belinda Probert
  • The Dogs by John Hughes
  • Words are Eagles by Gregory Day
  • Patrimonies by George Kouvaros
  • Fugitive by Simon Tedeschi
  • People who Lunch by Sally Olds
  • Abandon Every Hope by Hayley Singer
  • Dot Circle and Frame by John Kean
  • Silence is my Habitat by Jessica White
  • Fourteen Ways of Looking by Erin Vincent
  • Bullet, Paper, Rock by Abbas El-Zein

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