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Tag: Australian

Five gay things I learned from The Boy In The Dress

A story of a murder in the 1940s becomes a much bigger, and queerer, tale of Australia’s history.

Australian, Crime, History, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, queer, True crime, World War II

Review: No Document by Anwen Crawford

An investigation into breaking down old ones and making new ones.

Activism, Australian, Memoir, Migration, Nonfiction, Protest, Refugees

Review: Permafrost by SJ Norman

A collection of haunted stories that unsettle like the melting permafrost of the title.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Germany, Horror, LGBTIQ, Non-binary, Poland, queer, Short stories, UK

Review: The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey

A grim, aching study of women’s guilt and men’s rage.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction

Review: The Other Half Of You by Michael Mohammad Ahmad

A bracing read about modern masculinity.

Arabic writing, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel

Review: Lucky’s by Andrew Pippos

A fable of the fickle nature of fortune.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Greece, Greek-Australian, Novel, Sydney

Review: Fourteen by Shannon Malloy

A harrowing memoir of growing up gay in regional Australia.

Australian, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, queer

Review: Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen

A startling collection of poetry, prose-poetry and prose that resists literary colonisation.

Australian, Indigenous writers, Poetry

Review: Flames Of Extinction by John Pickrell

A urgent stocktake of the Black Summer, which burned a fifth of Australia’s forests.

Australian, Climate change, Conservation, Environment, Nonfiction

Review: Born Into This by Adam Thompson

Born Into This is an effective demand to be heard.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Short stories, Tasmania

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