Review: Beloved by Toni Morrison

The power of words.

Review: Feast by Emily O’Grady

Grotesque and decadent.

Review: Iris by Fiona Kelly McGregor

The lesbian answer to Ned Kelly.

Review: Abandon Every Hope by Hayley Singer

Why don’t we speak or think of what happens in abattoirs and slaughterhouses?

Review: Body Friend by Katherine Brabon

A meticulous study of pain.

Review: North And South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

All is flux.

Review: Always Will Be by Mikaela Saunders

Radical visions of the future.

Review: The Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

The big climate book.

Review: How Far The Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler

Science meets memoir.

Review: The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright

The limits and possibilities of empathy.