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Will Hunt

Will Hunt
Will Hunt is Assistant Editor at Australian Book Review.

Will Hunt reviews ‘The Dream Hotel: A novel’ by Laila Lalami

April 2025, no. 474 24 March 2025
On 22 January 1840, the Mettray Penal Colony officially opened. Mettray was a French prison farm for juvenile criminals that was imitated by other incarceration programs throughout Europe as a disciplinary model. For Michel Foucault, in Discipline and Punish (1975), its creation was a turning point in human power relations, as its structure reconfigured punishment as discipline and surveillance; i ... (read more)

Will Hunt reviews ‘Blood & Bone: UTS Writers’ Anthology 2024’ edited by Caileen Cachia et al.

January–February 2025, no. 472 17 December 2024
Surely every university’s creative writing anthology has the tagline ‘these are fresh voices’ plastered somewhere in its pages. In Blood & Bone, the thirty-eighth UTS Writers’ Anthology, this freshness is not some marketing cliché but apropos, characterised by all the gory atavism of its title and the recurrent theme of the body throughout its pages. These eclectic pieces explore the ... (read more)