Cherry Beach is a painful portrait of millennial queer life, and agonising desire.
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Review: Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Cleanness is a book of lofty ideas, grounded in the flesh.
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The Lost Arabs is a collection of cosmological, mystical poetry, a search for belonging and god in hell on earth.
Review: After Australia (edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad)
“Australia is just a glitch,” writes Wiradjuri writer Hannah Donnelly. After Australia is a collection of speculative fiction that explores what Australia is, and could be.
Review: The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Christmas Eve, 1617, an extraordinary storm – almost supernatural – emerges from the Arctic Ocean and, “like a finger snap”, … More
Review: Throat by Ellen van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven conjures magic from trauma in this fluid collection full of warmth and light.
Review: Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (translated by Sophie Hughes)
A brutal tale of murder, sex and witchcraft set in the steamy coastal plains of Mexico.
Review: The Tradition by Jericho Brown
The tradition is violation: of the land, of women, and especially black men’s bodies.
Review: The Adversary by Ronnie Scott
A story of gay frenemy-ship set in share-house inner Melbourne, uncovering uncomfortable truths about queer life and love.
Review: The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
A hilarious novel about mortality and ageing.
