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SUMMARY The Hollins Critic is a journal of literary criticism published five times a year through Hollins University in Roanoke. Founded in 1964 by Louis Rubin Jr., the journal was intended to promote new writers of fiction and poetry through an experimental form the editors described as “literary journalism.” When the journal debuted, they announced their plan to deliver in each issue a critical essay on “a new book by an important younger writer [that] will be considered at some length,...

Soprano Jade McFaul. MUSIC / “Kaleidoscope”, Jade McFaul, soprano, Lucus Allerton, piano, Art Song Canberra, Wesley Music Centre, Forrest, Sunday, 21 February. Reviewed by LEN POWER. AS autumn approaches with its expected change of colours, it was an inspired idea to celebrate in song the astonishing kaleidoscope of the colours of nature we experience in Australia. Soprano Jade McFaul was born in SA in 1996 but moved to Canberra in 2014 and completed a Bachelor of Music (Honours) degree at...