2023 reviewed.
Tag: Contemporary
Review: Audition by Pip Adam
Ishiguro meets Le Guin.
Review: Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
Sorrow enlivened by rage and humour.
Review: Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Spartacus meets Never Let Me Go.
Review: Chai Time At Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
A sharp retort to Australia’s arbitrary rules about who belongs and how.
Review: If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
A bruising novel investigating how love and desire operate under systems of power.
Review: August Blue by Deborah Levy
A breezy but potent novel of doublings and troublings.
Review: Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn
Amusing, playful and inventive short stories.
Review: The Lovers by Yumna Kassab
Is love a neutral force, or inherently exploitative?
Review: The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
The rich, complicated conclusion to N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy.
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