Joanna Di Mattia
Joanna Di Mattia is from Readings Carlton
Review — 25 Jun 2019
Expectation by Anna Hope
Now in their mid-thirties, Cate and Hannah, friends since high school, are drifting apart. Oxford-educated Cate is a new mum who has relocated to Canterbury in a house purchased by…
Review — 22 Apr 2019
Cape May by Chip Cheek
There’s an old-fashioned glamour to Chip Cheek’s impressive debut novel, Cape May, which I found very alluring. Set in 1957, in the seaside New Jersey town that gives the…
Review — 25 Mar 2019
We, The Survivors by Tash Aw
Tash Aw’s fourth novel, We, The Survivors reveals its mysteries slowly. Ah Hock, a Chinese Malaysian man, meets with a social researcher who wants to hear his story. We know…
Review — 29 Jan 2019
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (DVD) by Lorna Tucker
‘I’m just totally bored talking about this. But you need it, so I’ll tell you.’ So starts Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist, with a discernible friction between camera and subject…
Review — 29 Jan 2019
You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian
As with many explosions on the internet, I was a little slow to smell the fire caused by Kristen Roupenian’s short story, ‘Cat Person,’ when it appeared in the New…
Blog post — 15 Nov 2018
The best DVDs of 2018
Every year our staff vote for their favourite books, albums, films and TV shows of the past 12 months. Here are our top 10 DVDs of the year, voted for…
Review — 22 Oct 2018
Ohio by Stephen Markley
In the post-9/11 era, foreign wars, financial meltdowns, diminishing opportunities, and increasing alienation have shaped the United States of America. A generation of young people have come of age in…
Review — 23 Sep 2018
Marina Abramović in Brazil: The Space in Between
For over 40 years, Marina Abramović, the self-anointed ‘grandmother of performance art,’ has used her body to challenge audiences. In Marco Del Fiol’s film, Marina Abramović in Brazil: The Space…
Review — 23 Sep 2018
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson has a gift for blending fiction with historical detail. Life After Life (2013) and its companion, A God in Ruins (2015), are brilliant evocations of England, set predominantly…
Review — 30 Apr 2018
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
Warlight opens in the ruins of the London Blitz. It’s 1945, and fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister Rachel, are left in the care of a shifty Dickensian figure they…
