Kara Nicholson
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Review — 19 Aug 2019
White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
In 2018, journalist Ruby Hamad wrote an article for The Guardian Australia titled ‘How white women use strategic tears to silence women of colour’. It received worldwide praise andcondemnation. An…
Review — 22 Apr 2019
The Farm by Joanne Ramos
Golden Oaks is a farm in upstate New York where women (mostly women of colour) are paid to act as ‘hosts’ (surrogates) carrying babies for wealthy clients. The story of…
Review — 22 Jun 2020
Hazelwood by Tom Doig
In February 2014, the Hazelwood open-pit brown-coal mine caught fire and burned out of control for forty-five days. Residents of the impoverished Latrobe Valley endured months of toxic air pollution…
Review — 25 Sep 2016
Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford
The shocking nature of online abuse that Clementine Ford has received for her feminist writing is pretty widely known. In her first full-length book she fights back with a wholly…
Review — 22 Oct 2018
Heartland by Sarah Smarsh
The product of multiple generations of teenage mothers, Sarah Smarsh was just a child and living below the poverty line in rural Kansas when she first heard a voice from…
Review — 19 Aug 2018
The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World by Patrick Nunn
Alexis Wright’s Tracker and Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu are two recent publications to challenge the colonialist nature of Western history and science. Both have rightfully become bestselling and award-winning titles…
Review — 22 Oct 2017
The Future is History by Masha Gessen
As I read the final chapters of Masha Gessen’s latest book on Russian politics, it is reported that hundreds of protesters have been arrested in cities across Russia. Putin’s number-one…
Review — 24 Jun 2018
The Power of Hope by Kon Karapanagiotidis
A recent decision by the Australian government to cut income support for thousands of asylum seekers has meant the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) has reached breaking point. The ASRC…
Review — 30 Apr 2018
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
Brow Books is a local, not-for-profit, literary organisation that promises to publish ‘writers whose work sits in the literary margins’. Axiomatic uniquely combines narrative, reportage and essay and delivers unexpected…
Review — 26 Mar 2018
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things by Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore
Don’t be fooled by the simplistic title of this book as there are profound insights into the economic, social and environmental processes of the planet to be found on almost…