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Alice Whitmore

Dirty Realism’s Other Face

Alice Whitmore, Sydney Review of Books, March 2016

Here, nothing is sacred; everything is corruptible. The storylines themselves paint the picture for us.

Literature is a universal conversation and who better understands this than the translators working at the boundaries between literary worlds?

In her essay, Alice Whitmore untangles the modern lineage of writers, exploring a specific brand of realism exploding across geographically distant work.

This essay sparks reading tangents, hundreds of references to plunge you into a rabbit hole.

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