Poetry as still life.
Review: Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Spartacus meets Never Let Me Go.
Review: The Patriarchs by Angela Saini
No, patriarchy is not ‘natural’.
Review: What Have You Left Behind? by Bushra Al-Maqtari (translated by Sawad Hussain)
A record of the atrocities of war in Yemen.
Review: Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay
The third in the Neapolitan series broadens the scope.
Review: Chai Time At Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
A sharp retort to Australia’s arbitrary rules about who belongs and how.
Review: If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
A bruising novel investigating how love and desire operate under systems of power.
Review: August Blue by Deborah Levy
A breezy but potent novel of doublings and troublings.
Review: Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn
Amusing, playful and inventive short stories.
Review: A Passage To India by E. M. Forster
A clear-sighted and damning depiction of India under the British Raj.
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