by NRB | 26 Jan 2016 | Fiction |
The Best Small Fictions 2015 showcases microfiction and the potency of small things. What happens to time, space and meaning when fiction gets brief and small? This is an international anthology of 55 pieces of sub-1000-word fiction – microfiction, although there are...
by NRB | 11 Feb 2013 | Non-fiction |
This book invites readers to drink from a beautifully blended philosophical cup. Philosophers occupy a diffident space in Australian public life. No antipodean philosopher dominates debates here in the manner of Europeans like Slavoj Žižek or Bernard-Henri Lévy,...
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