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James Butler

CULTURE, NON-FICTIONOctober 10, 2017

STEPS TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF BODILY VIOLENCE

By James Butler

  a first step, 2008: I am sixteen and it is late at night and I am walking away from a large high school…

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CULTURE, NON-FICTIONMay 15, 2015

AND THE SONG SAID DON’T BE LONELY: Palimpsests, Intertextuality, and “Strange Magic”

By James Butler

The first blog I ever kept was about the relationship between reading and music.

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COLUMNSOctober 17, 2013

A Book, a Playlist: Steeplechase

By James Butler

Steeplechase, a novel by Brisbane-based writer Krissy Kneen, explores the relationships between many things: between sisters Bec and Emily, between art and madness, and between the…

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NON-FICTIONSeptember 2, 2013

Speeding

By James Butler

When I drove to my grandfather’s funeral I was almost stopped by the police. I had been driving the stretch of Pacific Highway between…

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