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Review — 21 Oct 2019
In Love with George Eliot by Kathy O’Shaughnessy
I have been stuck at page thirty-nine of Middlemarch for going on four years now. So when the chance to read about being in love with George Eliot arose, I…
Review — 19 Aug 2019
Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
There is a lyrical sense that is not to be hurried in Lucy Treloar’s writing. She writes you slowly into the world of her novels and you need to spend…
Review — 21 Jul 2019
Salt: Selected Stories and Essays by Bruce Pascoe
From the author of the game-changing Dark Emu comes Salt, a selection of essays and stories spanning more than thirty years. A paradigm shift does not happen overnight, and…
Review — 22 Apr 2019
Trapped: The Complete Series 2
On the second day of my trip to Iceland, in the capital city of Reykjavík, a dog was lost on the street where I was staying. The Facebook messages went…
Review — 22 Oct 2018
Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen
Niviaq Korneliussen begins her novel Crimson with a letter to the reader: ‘I began creating characters and stories on paper and suddenly the whole world was available to me.’
Crimson…
Review — 25 Mar 2019
Growing Up African in Australia edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke, Ahmed Yussuf & Magan Magan
In her introduction to Growing Up African in Australia, Maxine Beneba Clarke sets the scene for an anthology of great specificity. As she explains, this is an anthology that…
Review — 29 Jan 2019
Heart of the Grass Tree by Molly Murn
Before Nell died, she knew she needed to record a story, a story she had found very hard to share, a story that stretches back before her time. After Nell…
Review — 20 Aug 2017
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss’s new novel opens with the disappearance of Jules Epstein. A wealthy, retired New York lawyer, he has vanished in Tel Aviv. What’s more concerning is that he seems…
Review — 23 Sep 2018
Cedar Valley by Holly Throsby
Cedar Valley, Holly Throsby’s second novel, exists in the same world as her first novel, Goodwood. It’s an area a couple of hours south of Sydney, near the…
Review — 30 Apr 2018
Balancing Acts edited by Justin Wolfers & Erin Riley
A collection of 21 essays on women and sport, Balancing Acts runs the gamut from historically focused essay on the reception of women playing AFL, to a text-message story of…