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A blog about books and writing, through rainbow-tinted glasses. Every book gets a gay rating.

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Review: Past & Parallel Lives by Kaya Ortiz

Poems that slip and jump through time.

Australian, Colonialism, LGBTIQ, Migration, Philippines, Poetry, queer

Review: Nicolas Pages by Guillaume Dustan (translated by Peter Valente and James Horton)

Pure creative force.

1990s, Classics, Fiction, France, HIV, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer

Review: King Of Dirt by Holden Sheppard

Greasy, dusty, hot, sweaty fun.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer, Western Australia

Review: Translations by Jumaana Abdu

Structures of violence.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Palestine, Stella Prize

Review: Stag Dance by Torrey Peters

Barnstorming fictions that detonate gender shibboleths.

Fiction, Historical, LGBTIQ, Novella, queer, Speculative, Trans writing, US

Review: Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser

A post-structural post-colonial fairytale.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Melbourne, Novel

Review: The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili (translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin)

Epic family saga, surprisingly queer.

Authoritarianism, Contemporary, Europe, Family saga, Fiction, Georgia, Historical, International Booker Prize, Novel, Russia, Soviet Union

Review: The Orphan Gunner by Sara Knox

This queer WWII novel soars.

Australian, British, Classics, Fiction, Historical, lesbian, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer, War, World War II

Review: Both by Douglas Crase

Art as science, science as art.

Art, Biography, Botany, LGBTIQ, New York, Plants, queer, science, Taxonomy, US

Review: Dirt Poor Islanders by Winnie Dunn

Tough love.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Tonga, Western Sydney

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