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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: Leaping Into Waterfalls by Bernadette Brennan

Why isn’t Gillian Mears a household name?

Australian, Biography, Female writers, Literature, Nonfiction

Review: Federico García Lorca (translated by J. L. Gili)

The spirit of the land.

20th Century, Poetry, Spain

Review: Host City by David Owen Kelly

Electrifying alternate history.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, HIV/AIDS, LGBTIQ, Novel, Sydney

Review: A Language Of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle

Sliding Doors with a queer Australian twist.

Australian, Fiction, Historical, LGBTIQ, Newcastle, Novel, Sydney

Review: Dancer From The Dance by Andrew Holleran

No queen is left unstoned.

Classics, Fiction, gay, LGBTIQ, New York, Novel

Review: Detachable Penis by Sam Elkin

The boundary between the professional and personal is arbitrary.

Australian, Contemporary, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Transgender

Review: All Fours by Miranda July

In this fervid novel, a 45-year-old married woman sets out from Los Angeles for a holiday in New York after … More

Contemporary, Female writers, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, US

Review: Peripathetic by Cher Tan

Essays exuberantly wandering and open-ended.

Art, Australian, books, Criticism, Cultural theory, Essays, Singapore, writing

Review: Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

Sin and salvation in 1930s Harlem.

African-American writers, Black writers, Classics, Fiction, New York, Novel, US

The Art and Ethics of Jeffrey Smart

A life of art.

19, Art, Australian, History, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, Painting, queer, Queer history

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