The dangers of telling someone about the art you are working on.
Author: James Whitmore
I am a writer based in Melbourne. I’m interested in nature and the environment, and queer books.
Review: Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
Poetry that writes back against colonial inequity.
Review: Deep Water by James Bradley
How do you tell a story as big as the ocean?
Review: Plains Of Promise by Alexis Wright
Visions horrifying and beautiful.
Review: Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
Sin and salvation in 1930s Harlem.
Review: Only Sound Remains by Hossein Asgari
Intrigue in pre-Revolution Iran.
Review: Hospital by Sanya Rushdi (translated by Arunava Sinha)
‘Can people hear me think? Let them.’
The Art and Ethics of Jeffrey Smart
A life of art.
Review: The House Of The Spirits by Isabel Allende (translated by Magda Bogin)
A haunted house of a country.
Review: The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
The costs and compromises of desire.