Beejay Silcox
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 1, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Guardian
- Top 1K sites
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- Jul 16, 2026
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Under Story by Chloe Benjamin review â this time-reversal melodrama is quantum hokum (opens the original)
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A grieving couple who have lost their son find a way to a mirror universe where time runs backwards â but the narrative machinery is shonky and distracting There is something farcical â grotesque, even â about life played in reverse. A child falling into a tree. A sandwich emerging from a mouth, bite by reconstituted bite. A doctor unstitching a wound. The world is strange in any order, but rewind helps us notice â makes the ordinary absurd. Novels that pick a fight with forward momentum
Where Are the Kings by Donal Ryan review â a timeless tale of family sorrows and joys (opens the original)
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A teenage boy navigates adolescence and the traumatic loss of his mother in this poignant coming-of-age novel set in rural Ireland Something is happening to literary time. In the last fortnight Iâve read new or forthcoming novels about a mirror universe where history runs backwards (Under Story, Chloe Benjamin), an agency that offers appointments with the past (Time Travel for Beginners, Jaclyn Moriarty), and a young woman whoâs genetically untethered from linear life (Audrey Niffeneggerâs
Worry Doll by Laura McPhee-Browne review â a sensual, sinister novel about the horrors of desire (opens the original)
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Two women meet on a train and tumble into an all-consuming affair told from both sides â who have very different stories Iâve been craving a sandwich: soft white roll, roast chicken, sharp cheese. A bright little cut of tomato. After I finish this review Iâll walk up to the supermarket and buy myself a hot chook. Sink my teeth in. It wasnât my idea. I caught the craving from Laura McPhee-Browneâs Worry Doll. One of her characters longs for the same sandwich, made just so: âthere is a
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