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Brisbane Times

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I’m done with dystopian fiction – reality is scary enough

I’m done with dystopian fiction – reality is scary enough

You know things are bad when Severance looks like a dream scenario

28.02.2025 4

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

I’m done with dystopian fiction – reality is scary enough

I’m done with dystopian fiction – reality is scary enough

You know things are bad when Severance looks like a dream scenario

28.02.2025 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

I’m done with dystopian fiction – reality is scary enough

I’m done with dystopian fiction – reality is scary enough

You know things are bad when Severance looks like a dream scenario

28.02.2025 7

The Age

Genevieve Novak

I’m done with dystopian fiction – reality is scary enough

I’m done with dystopian fiction – reality is scary enough

You know things are bad when Severance looks like a dream scenario

28.02.2025 5

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

As a despot, I’d be a lovable leftie – just be sure to smile at my dog

My Millennial heart is in the right place, but I can’t say power wouldn’t go to my head.

31.01.2025 5

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

As a despot, I’d be a lovable leftie – just be sure to smile at my dog

My Millennial heart is in the right place, but I can’t say power wouldn’t go to my head.

31.01.2025 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

As a despot, I’d be a lovable leftie – just be sure to smile at my dog

My Millennial heart is in the right place, but I can’t say power wouldn’t go to my head.

31.01.2025 8

The Age

Genevieve Novak

As a despot, I’d be a lovable leftie – just be sure to smile at my dog

My Millennial heart is in the right place, but I can’t say power wouldn’t go to my head.

31.01.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

Swiping right goes very wrong as Andrew Tate’s army fakes a left turn

We all hide our flaws on dating apps, but this latest trend is next-level.

16.01.2025 10

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

Swiping right goes very wrong as Andrew Tate’s army fakes a left turn

16.01.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

Swiping right goes very wrong as Andrew Tate’s army fakes a left turn

16.01.2025 10

The Age

Genevieve Novak

Swiping right goes very wrong as Andrew Tate’s army fakes a left turn

We all hide our flaws on dating apps, but this latest trend is next-level.

16.01.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

I’m not striving for better in 2025. I’m hitting ‘unsubscribe’

I recently came across a TikTok therapist talking about the pointlessness of self-care. In a culture that worships hyper-productivity and infinite...

01.01.2025 2

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

I’m not striving for better in 2025. I’m hitting ‘unsubscribe’

I recently came across a TikTok therapist talking about the pointlessness of self-care. In a culture that worships hyper-productivity and infinite...

01.01.2025 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

I’m not striving for better in 2025. I’m hitting ‘unsubscribe’

I recently came across a TikTok therapist talking about the pointlessness of self-care. In a culture that worships hyper-productivity and infinite...

01.01.2025 3

The Age

Genevieve Novak

I’m not striving for better in 2025. I’m hitting ‘unsubscribe’

I recently came across a TikTok therapist talking about the pointlessness of self-care. In a culture that worships hyper-productivity and infinite...

01.01.2025 3

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

All I want for Christmas is world peace and a four-year snooze

When my brother and sister sent me my niblings’ Christmas lists this year – instruction manuals to keep this out-of-state, out-of-touch aunt on a...

19.12.2024 3

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

All I want for Christmas is world peace and a four-year snooze

When my brother and sister sent me my niblings’ Christmas lists this year – instruction manuals to keep this out-of-state, out-of-touch aunt on a...

19.12.2024 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

All I want for Christmas is world peace and a four-year snooze

When my brother and sister sent me my niblings’ Christmas lists this year – instruction manuals to keep this out-of-state, out-of-touch aunt on a...

19.12.2024 4

The Age

Genevieve Novak

All I want for Christmas is world peace and a four-year snooze

When my brother and sister sent me my niblings’ Christmas lists this year – instruction manuals to keep this out-of-state, out-of-touch aunt on a...

19.12.2024 4

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

Actually, I’m fine with not having it all

All through the ’90s and early aughts, any female character in any given medium followed just one arc: the struggle to “have it all”. No...

25.10.2024 1

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

Actually, I’m fine with not having it all

All through the ’90s and early aughts, any female character in any given medium followed just one arc: the struggle to “have it all”. No...

25.10.2024 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

Actually, I’m fine with not having it all

All through the ’90s and early aughts, any female character in any given medium followed just one arc: the struggle to “have it all”. No...

25.10.2024 1

The Age

Genevieve Novak

Actually, I’m fine with not having it all

All through the ’90s and early aughts, any female character in any given medium followed just one arc: the struggle to “have it all”. No...

25.10.2024 1

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

I hate to tell you, Emily, but that Paris romance won’t get any better

“I’ll forgive you, but my best friend won’t.” That’s what I thought each time I backslid into the same unsatisfying situationship. I’d...

11.10.2024 5

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

I hate to tell you, Emily, but that Paris romance won’t get any better

“I’ll forgive you, but my best friend won’t.” That’s what I thought each time I backslid into the same unsatisfying situationship. I’d...

11.10.2024 3

The Age

Genevieve Novak

I hate to tell you, Emily, but that Paris romance won’t get any better

“I’ll forgive you, but my best friend won’t.” That’s what I thought each time I backslid into the same unsatisfying situationship. I’d...

11.10.2024 1

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

I hate to tell you, Emily, but that Paris romance won’t get any better

“I’ll forgive you, but my best friend won’t.” That’s what I thought each time I backslid into the same unsatisfying situationship. I’d...

11.10.2024 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

This old thing? It’s from that golden time before life got real

I’ve been flogging my old clothes and accessories online lately. I’ve finally conceded that a wardrobe full of silk shirts, cocktail dresses, and...

25.09.2024 4

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

This old thing? It’s from that golden time before life got real

I’ve been flogging my old clothes and accessories online lately. I’ve finally conceded that a wardrobe full of silk shirts, cocktail dresses, and...

25.09.2024 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

This old thing? It’s from that golden time before life got real

I’ve been flogging my old clothes and accessories online lately. I’ve finally conceded that a wardrobe full of silk shirts, cocktail dresses, and...

25.09.2024 3

The Age

Genevieve Novak

This old thing? It’s from that golden time before life got real

I’ve been flogging my old clothes and accessories online lately. I’ve finally conceded that a wardrobe full of silk shirts, cocktail dresses, and...

25.09.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

She’s the dear friend I’ve never met. Is she about to drain my savings?

One of my closest friends is a complete stranger. It’s not that she’s recently done something wildly out of character, or even that some harrowing...

10.09.2024 5

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

She’s the dear friend I’ve never met. Is she about to drain my savings?

One of my closest friends is a complete stranger. It’s not that she’s recently done something wildly out of character, or even that some harrowing...

10.09.2024 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

She’s the dear friend I’ve never met. Is she about to drain my savings?

One of my closest friends is a complete stranger. It’s not that she’s recently done something wildly out of character, or even that some harrowing...

10.09.2024 5

The Age

Genevieve Novak

She’s the dear friend I’ve never met. Is she about to drain my savings?

One of my closest friends is a complete stranger. It’s not that she’s recently done something wildly out of character, or even that some harrowing...

10.09.2024 1

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

I could have been a billionaire but my brain got in the way

God, I’m expensive. Not in a chic way. Not even in a distasteful bourgeois way. I’m not talking about my skincare regimen, my mortgage, my Afterpay...

30.08.2024 4

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

I could have been a billionaire but my brain got in the way

God, I’m expensive. Not in a chic way. Not even in a distasteful bourgeois way. I’m not talking about my skincare regimen, my mortgage, my Afterpay...

30.08.2024 2

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

I could have been a billionaire but my brain got in the way

God, I’m expensive. Not in a chic way. Not even in a distasteful bourgeois way. I’m not talking about my skincare regimen, my mortgage, my Afterpay...

30.08.2024 3

The Age

Genevieve Novak

I could have been a billionaire but my brain got in the way

God, I’m expensive. Not in a chic way. Not even in a distasteful bourgeois way. I’m not talking about my skincare regimen, my mortgage, my Afterpay...

30.08.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

I used to think the worst of people but grief showed me I was wrong

One phrase in my vocabulary gets more usage than any other: “People are the worst.” As a lifelong, card-carrying cynic, all the evidence I find...

16.08.2024 2

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

I used to think the worst of people but grief showed me I was wrong

One phrase in my vocabulary gets more usage than any other: “People are the worst.” As a lifelong, card-carrying cynic, all the evidence I find...

16.08.2024 1

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

I used to think the worst of people but grief showed me I was wrong

One phrase in my vocabulary gets more usage than any other: “People are the worst.” As a lifelong, card-carrying cynic, all the evidence I find...

16.08.2024 30

The Age

Genevieve Novak

I used to think the worst of people but grief showed me I was wrong

One phrase in my vocabulary gets more usage than any other: “People are the worst.” As a lifelong, card-carrying cynic, all the evidence I find...

16.08.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak

There’s a place where I’m still 22, and a show to take me there

I think I’ve discovered a glitch in the universe. Somehow, lately, I’m able to dip out of the present moment and into one from long ago,...

02.08.2024 3

WA Today

Genevieve Novak

There’s a place where I’m still 22, and a show to take me there

I think I’ve discovered a glitch in the universe. Somehow, lately, I’m able to dip out of the present moment and into one from long ago,...

02.08.2024 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Genevieve Novak

There’s a place where I’m still 22, and a show to take me there

I think I’ve discovered a glitch in the universe. Somehow, lately, I’m able to dip out of the present moment and into one from long ago,...

02.08.2024 1

The Age

Genevieve Novak

There’s a place where I’m still 22, and a show to take me there

I think I’ve discovered a glitch in the universe. Somehow, lately, I’m able to dip out of the present moment and into one from long ago,...

02.08.2024 6

Brisbane Times

Genevieve Novak