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Madeleine Watts
WG Sebald’s
Rings of Saturn
Might Be the Perfect Climate Change Novel
Madeleine Watts’s on the Prescient Genius of a Hard-to-Categorize Novel
By
Madeleine Watts
| February 20, 2025
“There’s No Story to Tell About Swimming.” Madeleine Watts on How to Quiet the Mind
Introducing
When I’m Not Writing
, a Series About Writers and Their Hobbies
By
Madeleine Watts
| December 5, 2022
The Long Goodbye: Reconciling with the End of Nature
Madeleine Watts on Life in a Slow Motion Crisis
By
Madeleine Watts
| January 14, 2021
On the Diaries of Helen Garner and the Quagmire of the Fictionalized Self
Madeleine Watts Navigates the Borderlands of Autofiction
By
Madeleine Watts
| July 16, 2020
On Patrick White, Australia’s Great Unread Novelist
Madeleine Watts Wonders If Any of Us Can Go Home Again
By
Madeleine Watts
| September 30, 2019
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