Poetry that belies Auden’s training as a scientist.
Review: Audition by Pip Adam
Ishiguro meets Le Guin.
Review: Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
Sorrow enlivened by rage and humour.
Five films from the Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2023
Queer films to add to your watchlist (or not!).
Review: The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt
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.
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