Poly is a riot of a novel, an all out brawl.
Category: Reviews
Review: Rainforest by Eileen Chong
These are austere, still poems about the things embodied in words.
Review: Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne
Cherry Beach is a painful portrait of millennial queer life, and agonising desire.
Review: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
There are a lot of feelings in Mary Shelley’s cautionary tale of science run amuck, but her depiction of nature in all its untrammelled grandeur is still something to behold.
Review: Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Cleanness is a book of lofty ideas, grounded in the flesh.
Review: Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
What would happen if a married woman behaved like a man? Fleishman Is In Trouble provides the answer.
Review: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
Entangled Life is a mind-expanding trip into the world of fungi, and a model for nature and science writing.
Review: The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr
The Lost Arabs is a collection of cosmological, mystical poetry, a search for belonging and god in hell on earth.
Review: Summer by Ali Smith
Ali Smith’s Seasonal quartet is over. What a journey, and what a time for it to end.
Review: Feasting Wild by Gina Rae La Cerva
A moving and compelling investigation into wild food and the practices of hunting and gathering, and by extension, humanity’s whole relationship to nature.
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