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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 1, 2026
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Top 1K sites
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Jul 16, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Beejay Silcox

    Under Story by Chloe Benjamin review – 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 – but the narrative machinery is shonky and distracting There is something farcical – grotesque, even – 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 – makes the ordinary absurd. Novels that pick a fight with forward momentum

  2. Article · Aug 19, 2026 · Beejay Silcox

    Where Are the Kings by Donal Ryan review – 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 I’ve 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 who’s genetically untethered from linear life (Audrey Niffenegger’s

  3. Article · Jul 16, 2026 · Beejay Silcox

    Worry Doll by Laura McPhee-Browne review – 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 – who have very different stories I’ve been craving a sandwich: soft white roll, roast chicken, sharp cheese. A bright little cut of tomato. After I finish this review I’ll walk up to the supermarket and buy myself a hot chook. Sink my teeth in. It wasn’t my idea. I caught the craving from Laura McPhee-Browne’s Worry Doll. One of her characters longs for the same sandwich, made just so: “there is a

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