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Review: Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu (translated by Tiffany Tsao)

Lithe, spectral stories.

Colonialism, Fiction, Indonesia, LGBTIQ, Short stories, Translation

Review: The Selected Poems Of Frank O’Hara (edited by Donald Allen)

“Everything is in the poems,” Frank O’Hara writes in the manifesto that introduces this selection, in which he describes and … More

LGBTIQ, New York, Poetry, queer, US

Review: Mood by Roz Bellamy

A vital memoir of mental illness.

Australian, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Mental illness, Nonfiction, queer

Review: The Modern by Anna Kate Blair

Love, sex, marriage, work and New York deconstructed.

Art, Australian, Bisexual, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, New York, Novel, queer

Review: Porn by Polly Barton

Pornchats for everyone!

Anthropology, Nonfiction, Sex, Sociology

Review: W. H. Auden: Poems Selected By John Fuller

Poetry that belies Auden’s training as a scientist.

Classics, England, gay, Poetry, queer

Review: Audition by Pip Adam

Ishiguro meets Le Guin.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, Speculative

Review: Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Spartacus meets Never Let Me Go.

Black writers, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Prisons, Racism, speculative fiction, US

Review: August Blue by Deborah Levy

A breezy but potent novel of doublings and troublings.

British, Contemporary, Deborah Levy, Europe, Fiction, Novel

Review: Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn

Amusing, playful and inventive short stories.

Animals, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Short stories, Speculative, speculative fiction

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