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Tag: Essays

Review: Peripathetic by Cher Tan

Essays exuberantly wandering and open-ended.

Art, Australian, books, Criticism, Cultural theory, Essays, Singapore, writing

Review: Abandon Every Hope by Hayley Singer

Why don’t we speak or think of what happens in abattoirs and slaughterhouses?

Animals, Australian, Essays, Ethics, Nonfiction, Stella Prize

Review: How Far The Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler

Science meets memoir.

Essays, Marine biology, nature, Nonfiction, science, Science writing

Review: Eventually, Everything Connects by Sarah Firth

Sly, whimsical, existential essays.

Australian, Contemporary, Essays, Graphic novel, Memoir

Review: The Right To Sex by Amia Srinivasan

Clear-sighted essays on the most urgent issues in feminism today.

Essays, Feminism, LGBTIQ, Philosophy

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: big beautiful female theory by Eloise Grills

A gorgeous and liberatory collection of illustrated essays and memoir.

Essays, Female writers, Feminism, Illustrated, Memoir, Nonfiction, Stella Prize

Review: Signs And Wonders by Delia Falconer

Essays that evoke the feeling of living through environmental crisis.

Australian, Climate change, Essays, Extinction, nature writing, Nonfiction

Review: Against Disappearance (edited by Leah Jing McIntosh and Adolfo Aranjuez)

A challenging, demanding and exciting collection of nonfiction.

Australian, Essays, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Writers of colour

Review: Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

A virtuosic collection of essays about the meanings we invest in nature and animals.

Animals, British, Climate change, Environment, Essays, nature, nature writing, Nonfiction
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