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Tag: Contemporary

Review: Chai Time At Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran

A sharp retort to Australia’s arbitrary rules about who belongs and how.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Miles Franklin Award, Novel, Sri Lanka

Review: If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga

A bruising novel investigating how love and desire operate under systems of power.

Colonialism, Contemporary, Egypt, Feminism, Fiction, Novel, Racism

Review: August Blue by Deborah Levy

A breezy but potent novel of doublings and troublings.

British, Contemporary, Deborah Levy, Europe, Fiction, Novel

Review: Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn

Amusing, playful and inventive short stories.

Animals, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Short stories, Speculative, speculative fiction

Review: The Lovers by Yumna Kassab

Is love a neutral force, or inherently exploitative?

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Lebanon, Middle East, Novel

Review: The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin

The rich, complicated conclusion to N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy.

Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Hugo Award, Novel, science fiction

Review: The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

Photojournalist and gambler Maali Almeida is dead. He wakes with no memory in a white waiting room where Helpers try … More

Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Journalism, LGBTIQ, Novel, Photography, Sri Lanka, War

Review: Waypoints by Adam Ouston

A soaring novel that conjures awe and wonder.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Melbourne, Novel

Review: Root And Branch by Eda Gunaydin

A compelling search for origins.

Australian, Class, Contemporary, Essays, Multiculturalism, Racism, Sydney, Turkey, Western Sydney, Working class

Review: Hydra by Adriane Howell

A many-headed mystery of a novel.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel

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