Review: See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill

See What You Made Me Do goes beyond headlines to uncover the horrifying scale of domestic abuse in Australia.

Review: The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

A hilarious novel about mortality and ageing.

The Yield offers a generous and quietly radical vision of a possible Australia.

Here Until August is an intriguing collection of 10 short stories. They often feel haunted and uncanny.

The story of a father and daughter, both touched by crippling illness.

I can’t say I enjoyed this book very much – it’s full of domestic tragedy – but I was impressed by its intensely claustrophobic mood.

Whittaker’s poetic language is urgent but timeless, vernacular but formally rigorous, totally unique.

In 2019 I gravitated to stories of radical, political change (can you blame me?), and there seemed to be a surplus available.

Caravaggio perfected painting people at the exact moment when dark gives way to light. In Damascus, Tsolkias achieves the same effect in words.

Australia Day is a revealing and uncomfortable diagnosis of Australia’s multicultural insecurities.