“The Liminal Review of Books is a kind of criticism; not of a book, or of a critic, but of an industry. […] To critique is a refusal to endure, a refusal to be silent, to admit one’s desire to be a part of it all, to admit, to admit, to be open and honest and true.” Read the 2021 introduction to the Liminal Review of Books here.
Since 2021, The Liminal Review of Books has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts funding and advisory body; the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria; and the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.
‘In Pessoa, the fragment is his refuge from the prosaic tenets of plot, performance and character. That temporary tinsel in the shop window becomes an after-image sought by the imagination and worked over by thought to re-enchant everyday life.’
Read More‘Literature isn’t so far from real conditions: it is part of the process of reinforcing, resisting and reifying conditions. This is where any idea of an artist, separate and at odds with their total environment, begins to break down.’
Read More‘Granted, Lin was ahead of his time, but there is no future here.’
Read More‘As Said helped us understand, representations don’t just allow us to think a certain way; they also give us license to act in a particular fashion. To lose a self-image, then, is to forfeit a specific mode of inhabiting and engaging the world.’
Read More‘In its own way, each episode of HHI is fraught with background, cloaking the exuberant desire that once motivated the hunters’ odyssey to the other side of the world in the mundane fabula of kitchen dimension, bathroom quantity, and work commute distance.’
Read More‘…it’s easy to lose the emotion of history, and to forget how recent it all is. It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that what now seems unfathomable could, very easily, become reality again.’
Read More‘I was born with perfect shoulders. But when I moved to Philadelphia, they told me I had a chip on one, the size of “Australia”.’
Read More‘What role does love play in the making of revolutions and the articulation of revolutionary desire? Can love teach us to remain determined to leap from the world we inhabit to a future we desire?’
Read More‘Staying with the trouble is one thing, but sometimes I’d just like my heart to stop beating so hard.’
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