A contained and seething study of madness and familial obligation.
Author: James Whitmore
I am a writer based in Melbourne. I’m interested in nature and the environment, and queer books.
Review: Son Of Sin by Omar Sakr
A heady mix of mundane and heavenly, the sins of the flesh and the yearning of the spirit.
Review: Found, Wanting by Natasha Sholl
A gripping and exhausting, funny and despairing, and completely compelling account of living with grief.
Review: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
A monumental, meandering, magnificent tale of truth, love, beauty.
Review: The Dictionary Of Lost Words by Pip Williams
A novel about who defines the words that define us.
Five gay things I learned from The Boy In The Dress
A story of a murder in the 1940s becomes a much bigger, and queerer, tale of Australia’s history.
Review: Otherlands by Thomas Halliday
A safari through time with an urgent message about the future.
Review: The Promise by Damon Galgut
A story of an Afrikaner family whose fortunes mirror that of post-apartheid South Africa.
Review: The Death Of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
An insight into the silence and stigma of living queer in Nigeria.
Review: The Dangers Of Smoking In Bed by Mariana Enriquez (translated by Megan McDowell)
There are plenty of scary creatures in this collection, but the real horror is what it says about the our world.
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