Kristel Thornell

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Selected Publications

Stories
"Yoga Lessons," Chinese translation by Yan Han, One-Way Street Journal, 24 May, 2020
"Leading Man," Meanjin, 68.2, 2009
"Cabin Fever," Overland, No. 195, Winter 2009
"Miramare Park," Southerly, Vol. 68, Issue 1, 2008
"So Long, Dianne," anthologised in Small City Tales of Strangeness and Beauty, Wakefield Press, 2008

Poems
"Dreaming of Houses," Overland, No. 190, 2008
"Rainy Season," Island, No. 112, Autumn 2008
"Most Special Day Ever," Wet Ink, No. 6, Autumn 2007
"Kitchen Fractal," Other Poetry, II/30, 2006

Essays
"The ritual of vintage," Meanjin, Vol. 70, No. 1, 2011
"Film adaptations of Emma between agency and submission," Mosaic, September 2010

Reviews
"Disillusionment in The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante", The Australian, 27 August 2020
Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marías, Three Percent: a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester, 26 October 2016
"In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri explores the thrill of a foreign language", The Sydney Morning Herald/The Melbourne Age, 26 February 2016
"The Story of the Lost Child review: The end of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan's suite", The Sydney Morning Herald/The Melbourne Age, 5 September 2015
"Eyes Wide Open", The Last Will and Testament of Jon Martinez de Larrume by Antony Christie, The Fiddlehead, Autumn 2009
"Small Measures of Salvation," Critical Injuries by Joan Barfoot, The Fiddlehead, Autumn 2002
"The True Riddle of the Sphinx," The Truth about Love by Patrick Roscoe, The Fiddlehead, Spring 2002
"Dance of Exile," Mile End by Lise Tremblay, The Fiddlehead, Winter 2002