A hilarious novel about mortality and ageing.
Tag: Contemporary
Review: The Yield by Tara June Winch
The Yield offers a generous and quietly radical vision of a possible Australia.
Review: The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab
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.
Review: Blakwork by Alison Whittaker
Whittaker’s poetic language is urgent but timeless, vernacular but formally rigorous, totally unique.
Review: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Girl, Woman, Other is a book intensely concerned with the politics of identity and creativity, and how they have shifted over the 20th century.
Review: The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
The Obelisk Gate is the second part of N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, set in alternative world known ironically as the Stillness.
Review: The Old Lie by Claire G. Coleman
The old Lie, according to WWI poet Wilfred Owen, is that there is glory to be found in dying for one’s country. Claire G. Coleman’s new novel of the same title is a systematic demolishing of that lie.
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