Auē tears down the walls around New Zealand’s epidemic of domestic violence.
Tag: Fiction
Review: Light by Eva Figes
A masterful, stroll-around-a-garden novella.
Review: Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
A story of growing up black and queer in the UK.
Review: Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler
An eerily prescient vision of the climate-ruined near future.
Review: Detransition, Baby
Detransition, Baby is out to shake your notions of gender and family to their core.
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: Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (translated by Elisabeth Jaquette)
A short, seething and immaculate novel about what it’s like living in Israeli occupied Palestine.
Review: Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
An intriguing fantasy drawing on forest myths that is burdened by an unfortunate attitude to women.
Review: The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
The Rain Heron is a fable about environmental exploitation.
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