Review: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Girl, Woman, Other is a book intensely concerned with the politics of identity and creativity, and how they have shifted over the 20th century.

Review: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Testaments is now a book that is completely inseparable from the politics surrounding it.

The long-haired rat proves to be an excellent subject for an environmental history of Australia since colonisation.

Adonis, Narcissus, Hyacinthus: all run afoul of the gods in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

The Obelisk Gate is the second part of N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, set in alternative world known ironically as the Stillness.

Caravaggio perfected painting people at the exact moment when dark gives way to light. In Damascus, Tsolkias achieves the same effect in words.

Australia Day is a revealing and uncomfortable diagnosis of Australia’s multicultural insecurities.

Patrick White was the first Australian to win a Nobel Prize for literature. He was also a huge homo.

The Pillars is a novel where property power is everything and each word seems to take on a menacing aura.

My favourite imagery in all of literature comes from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.