Isabella Gullifer-Laurie
✷Isabella is a writer and researcher.
She has written reviews and essays on literature, art, and film for publications such as Sydney Review of Books, Chicago Review, Meanjin, The Saturday Paper, and others.
She is an MA candidate in English at the University of Melbourne, where she is writing a thesis on the work of Renata Adler, Joan Didion, and Elizabeth Hardwick.
Recently, she participated in the 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival Critics Campus.
‘Women Talking’ — an annotation for Melbourne Cinémathèque on Delphine Seyrig’s Be Pretty and Shut Up! / Senses of Cinema
Book review of Antigone Kefala’s Fiction / The Saturday Paper
Book review of Beverley Farmer’s The Seal Woman / The Saturday Paper
‘Her Own Witness’ — a review of Self-Portrait and Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul / Sydney Review of Books
‘The Voyage Out’ — a review of Strangers at the Port by Lauren Aimee Curtis / Meanjin
Book review of Deborah Levy’s The Position of Spoons / The Saturday Paper
Book review of Jessica Au’s Cold Enough for Snow / Chicago Review
Film review of Roberta Torre’s In the Mirror / Roughcut
Book review of Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium / The Saturday Paper
Interview with Audrey Lam on Us and the Night / MIFF + Kill Your Darlings
Feature on Niki de Saint Phalle’s Un rêve plus long que la nuit / MIFF
‘Into the hedges that line the walk’ — a review of A Horse at Night by Amina Cain / Meanjin
Book review of Anna Kate Blair’s The Modern / The Saturday Paper
‘The long and the short of it’ — a review of Wall by Jen Craig / Overland
‘Contiguity’ — a review of Theory of Colours by Bella Li / Meanjin
She has written reviews and essays on literature, art, and film for publications such as Sydney Review of Books, Chicago Review, Meanjin, The Saturday Paper, and others.
She is an MA candidate in English at the University of Melbourne, where she is writing a thesis on the work of Renata Adler, Joan Didion, and Elizabeth Hardwick.
Recently, she participated in the 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival Critics Campus.
Some recent writing
‘Women Talking’ — an annotation for Melbourne Cinémathèque on Delphine Seyrig’s Be Pretty and Shut Up! / Senses of Cinema
Book review of Antigone Kefala’s Fiction / The Saturday Paper
Book review of Beverley Farmer’s The Seal Woman / The Saturday Paper
‘Her Own Witness’ — a review of Self-Portrait and Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul / Sydney Review of Books
‘The Voyage Out’ — a review of Strangers at the Port by Lauren Aimee Curtis / Meanjin
Book review of Deborah Levy’s The Position of Spoons / The Saturday Paper
Book review of Jessica Au’s Cold Enough for Snow / Chicago Review
Film review of Roberta Torre’s In the Mirror / Roughcut
Book review of Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium / The Saturday Paper
Interview with Audrey Lam on Us and the Night / MIFF + Kill Your Darlings
Feature on Niki de Saint Phalle’s Un rêve plus long que la nuit / MIFF
‘Into the hedges that line the walk’ — a review of A Horse at Night by Amina Cain / Meanjin
Book review of Anna Kate Blair’s The Modern / The Saturday Paper
‘The long and the short of it’ — a review of Wall by Jen Craig / Overland
‘Contiguity’ — a review of Theory of Colours by Bella Li / Meanjin
Get in touch
isabellagulliferlaurie [at] gmail [dot] com