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248 Spring 2022

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Madeleine Gray

Madeleine Gray is a writer and critic from Sydney. In 2021 she was a finalist for the Walkley Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism, and is the current recipient of a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund award. Her writing has appeared in the SRB, The Monthly, the TLS, the Saturday Paper and the Lifted Brow.

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19 November 202127 January 2022

Which One Are You?

Madeleine Gray

I had to innovate. I had to create a game that put the onus of invention and self-revelation back onto the players. And this is how I came up with my piece de resistance, my submission to the games hall of fame. It’s called ‘Which One Are You?’

11 December 20208 February 2021

Fucking old white men: on Raven Leilani’s Luster

Madeleine Gray

Luster is smart, and funny, and very sad, and extremely good in its own right. In observing the refracted desires and self-critiques that guide Edie’s romantic trajectory, we can see one example of how race, age and privilege intersect to influence what it is that we want when we have sex.