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Nathan Smith

Nathan Smith is a Melbourne-based writer and aspiring academic interested in queer theory, contemporary fiction, and star studies. He completed his honours thesis last year on the queer investments of Elizabeth Taylor and is currently pursuing an MA at the University of Melbourne. He is currently helping edit the University of Melbourne’s graduate student academic journal antiTHESIS and has an article forthcoming in film journal Senses of Cinema.

Nathan Smith reviews 'The Snow Queen' by Michael Cunningham

June–July 2014, no. 362 01 June 2014
Telling the stories of brothers Tyler and Barrett, with interspersing brief moments from their lovers and mothers, Michael Cunningham’s The Snow Queen reunites its author with a familiar subject: the sublimity of the ordinary. Barrett is a failed academic whose scholarly pursuits have dried up long before they should have begun to do so, while his romantic life is one mostly mediated by text me ... (read more)