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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

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The Long Goodbye: Reconciling with the End of Nature

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

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

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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