Jack Stanton

Jan 6, 2025 | smh.com.au | Jack Stanton

By Jack Cameron Stanton January 6, 2025 — 7.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. FICTIONThe Edge of the AlphabetJanet Frame, foreword by Catherine LaceyFitzcarraldo Editions, $26.99All you need to do is read the third volume of Janet Frame’s autobiography The Envoy from Mirror City to discover how The Edge of the Alphabet translated into fictional form Frame’s own loneliness in postwar London.

Nov 12, 2024 | nbhdpaper.com | Matthew Thompson |Jack Stanton |Ian Keldoulis

Cruising Madison Avenue is a supreme form of capitalist seduction. The retail equivalent of a Hollywood smile. Each luxury store is inviting, flawless, gleaming with a sparkle or two. Only now, some teeth are missing. Vacancies are staying that way, often for years, the city’s face looks haggard. This retail rot is a new form of urban blight. Rust Belt towns with boarded-up Main Streets due to capital flight and evaporating jobs are easily understood.

Oct 22, 2024 | smh.com.au | Jack Stanton

By Jack Cameron Stanton October 23, 2024 — 12.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. FICTIONAnnihilationMichel HouellebecqPicador, $34.99Hold each other close as the world falls apart. So says Michel Houellebecq in his final novel, Annihilation. When approaching the work of a writer as famous as Houellebecq, the reading experience is informed by everything he has written — and that has been written about him.

Jul 24, 2024 | neighborhoodpaper.com | Jack Stanton |Jin Hien Lau |Rocco Fazzari

Let’s say you program a thinking machine to plant sunflowers all over the Earth. Using artificial intelligence, the machine set out to cover the world, eventually realising its biggest obstacles are humanity and concrete. To solve this problem, the thinking machine invests its intelligence in eradicating humanity, destroying every trace of our architecture, so that it can plant flowers in peace.

Jul 24, 2024 | neighborhoodpaper.com | Matthew Thompson |Jack Stanton |Ian Keldoulis

Cruising Madison Avenue is a supreme form of capitalist seduction. The retail equivalent of a Hollywood smile. Each luxury store is inviting, flawless, gleaming with a sparkle or two. Only now, some teeth are missing. Vacancies are staying that way, often for years, the city’s face looks haggard. This retail rot is a new form of urban blight. Rust Belt towns with boarded-up Main Streets due to capital flight and evaporating jobs are easily understood.