Jack Cameron Stanton

A decade has passed since Eleanor Catton became the youngest writer to win the Booker Prize for The Luminaries. A work about a murder conspiracy set in 1866 New Zealand during the gold rush, it was rich with dramatic exuberance and stylish bravado. With …

Fiction and dreams have a complicated, even toxic, relationship. Fiction is already a simulation of reality, with varying degrees of fidelity to The Real; and likewise, the process of reading, much like dreaming – and indeed writing – involves a theatrical …

In Scott McCulloch’s debut novel Basin, an aimless nomad called Figure traverses an interminable landscape that feels similar to the impossible staircase in Escher’s lithograph Ascending and Descending. Figure roams the territories …

In her debut memoir, Muddy People, Sara El Sayed records her teenage years growing up in Australia as an Egyptian–Muslim migrant. Sara’s parents, both professionals, fled Egypt’s percolating economic and political instability and moved …