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251 Winter 2023

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Abigail Fisher

Abigail Fisher is a writer and PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. You can find her reviews and other writing in various places online and in print, including Overland, Sydney Review of Books,Australian Book Review, Rabbit Poetry, Mascara Literary Review, Cordite, Kill Your Darlings and TEXT Journal.

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Published in Overland Issue 248 Spring 2022 · Reviews

Feature | Bella Li: Alchemy, allegory, spectres of light

Abigail Fisher

To flip through the thick, matte pages of Theory of Colours is to wander around an abandoned theme park at dusk. Dimly, you can make out certain structures in the falling light: a hotel, a museum, a swimming pool, and various attractions harnessing the vertiginous interplay of height and depth, including mountains, valleys, towers and gaping chasms.

4 April 202218 May 2022 · Film

The revolution will not be quirky

Abigail Fisher

The French Dispatch is Wes Anderson’s most overtly ‘historical’ film to date. It is also his most Wes Anderson. His longstanding tendency toward narrative detours and aesthetic pastiche finds here its most fitting form in a kind of fragmented, nesting doll format, intended to resemble an issue of a magazine.