Detransition, Baby is out to shake your notions of gender and family to their core.
Tag: Contemporary
Review: The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again by M. John Harrison
A dense and watery novel about the madness of searching for meaning in our mad times.
Review: Born Into This by Adam Thompson
Born Into This is an effective demand to be heard.
Review: The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
The Rain Heron is a fable about environmental exploitation.
Review: Revenge by S. L. Lim
A furious and thrilling novel about the “lives you might have had.”
Review: The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
An accomplished novel that forensically examines misogyny in all its forms.
Review: Collisions (edited by Leah Jing McIntosh, Cher Tan, Adalya Nash Hussein and Hassan Abul)
Collisions aims to “shift the Australian imaginary”.
Review: Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green
A beautiful, profoundly moving tribute to the relationship between mother and daughter.
Review: Song Of The Crocodile by Nardi Simpson
Another unpredictable and unsettling novel from the latest flourishing of Aboriginal writing.
Review: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
A tale of despair, illness and poverty that captures the swooping highs and devastating lows of life.
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