Lithe and shape-shifting.
Tag: Colonialism
Best books I’ve read 2024
Books to prevent enshittification.
Review: Naag Mountain by Manisha Anjali
Be taken into the dreamworld.
Review: Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu (translated by Tiffany Tsao)
Lithe, spectral stories.
Best books I’ve read 2023
2023 reviewed.
Review: Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
Sorrow enlivened by rage and humour.
Review: If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
A bruising novel investigating how love and desire operate under systems of power.
Review: A Passage To India by E. M. Forster
A clear-sighted and damning depiction of India under the British Raj.
Review: Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar
An intimate, clear-sighted epic of Australian colonialism.
Review: The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh
A powerful retelling of the last 500 years of history – and where we go next.
