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James Ley is Contributing Editor with the Sydney Review of Books. He is the author of The Critic in the Modern World: Public Criticism for
Samuel Johnson to James Wood (2014) and co-editor with Catriona Menzies-Pike of The Australian Face: Essays from the Sydney Review of Books (2017).