Toxic is a polemic against Tasmania’s farmed salmon industry.
Category: Reviews
Review: The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
The Rain Heron is a fable about environmental exploitation.
Review: Eating With My Mouth Open by Sam van Zweden
Eating With My Mouth open is an investigation of food, body and memory, and all the things they can mean.
Review: Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
A virtuosic collection of essays about the meanings we invest in nature and animals.
Review: Revenge by S. L. Lim
A furious and thrilling novel about the “lives you might have had.”
Review: The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan (translated by Howard Goldblatt)
A potent depiction of a time and a place, and seething critique of corruption.
Review: The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
An accomplished novel that forensically examines misogyny in all its forms.
Review: Collisions (edited by Leah Jing McIntosh, Cher Tan, Adalya Nash Hussein and Hassan Abul)
Collisions aims to “shift the Australian imaginary”.
Review: Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green
A beautiful, profoundly moving tribute to the relationship between mother and daughter.
Review: White Beech by Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer writes that restoring the land is her proudest achievement.
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