A novel about who defines the words that define us.
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.
Review: No Document by Anwen Crawford
An investigation into breaking down old ones and making new ones.
Review: Permafrost by SJ Norman
A collection of haunted stories that unsettle like the melting permafrost of the title.
Review: The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey
A grim, aching study of women’s guilt and men’s rage.
Review: The Other Half Of You by Michael Mohammad Ahmad
A bracing read about modern masculinity.
Review: Lucky’s by Andrew Pippos
A fable of the fickle nature of fortune.
Review: Fourteen by Shannon Malloy
A harrowing memoir of growing up gay in regional Australia.
Review: Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
A startling collection of poetry, prose-poetry and prose that resists literary colonisation.
Review: Flames Of Extinction by John Pickrell
A urgent stocktake of the Black Summer, which burned a fifth of Australia’s forests.
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