A new review of Jessica White's 'Silence is my Habitat' (2025) by Adele Dumont In Sydney Review of Books July '26

A new review of Jessica White's 'Silence is my Habitat' (2025) by Adele Dumont In Sydney Review of Books July '26

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.

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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