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Tag: Colonialism

Review: Ankami by Debra Dank

Exploring the unbearable.

Aboriginal writers, Australian, Colonialism, Family history, History, Nonfiction, Racism

Review: A Kindness Cup by Thea Astley

Can’t we just forget about all that?

Australian, Classics, Colonialism, Indigenous Australians

Review: Past & Parallel Lives by Kaya Ortiz

Poems that slip and jump through time.

Australian, Colonialism, LGBTIQ, Migration, Philippines, Poetry, queer

Review: Black Convicts by Santilla Chingaipe

Australia’s convict history has been whitewashed.

Australian, Colonialism, History, Nonfiction, Slavery

Review: Rock Flight by Hasib Hourani

Lithe and shape-shifting.

Australian, Colonialism, Israel, Palestine, Poetry

Best books I’ve read 2024

Books to prevent enshittification.

Australian, Classics, Colonialism, Contemporary, End of year review, Environment, Fiction, Historical, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Novel, Poetry, Stella Prize, Year in review

Review: Naag Mountain by Manisha Anjali

Be taken into the dreamworld.

Colonialism, Fiji, India, Pacific, Poetry

Review: Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu (translated by Tiffany Tsao)

Lithe, spectral stories.

Colonialism, Fiction, Indonesia, LGBTIQ, Short stories, Translation

Best books I’ve read 2023

2023 reviewed.

Anthology, Australian, Classics, Colonialism, Contemporary, End of year review, Female writers, Fiction, History, India, Indigenous history, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Memoir, Nonfiction, Novel, Racism, Short stories, Speculative, speculative fiction, War, Year in review

Review: Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko

Sorrow enlivened by rage and humour.

Australian, Colonialism, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Indigenous writers, Novel

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