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Tag: France

Review: Desire Paths by Megan Clement

Defence of movement.

Australian, Contemporary, COVID-19, France, Grief, Journalism, Memoir, Nonfiction

Review: Querelle Of Brest by Jean Genet (translated by Gregory Steatham)

Be gay, do crime.

Classics, Fiction, France, Novel, queer

Review: Nicolas Pages by Guillaume Dustan (translated by Peter Valente and James Horton)

Pure creative force.

1990s, Classics, Fiction, France, HIV, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer

Review: The Years by Annie Ernaux

A generational reckoning.

Classics, France, History, Memoir, Nobel Laureate, Nonfiction

Review: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

A monumental, meandering, magnificent tale of truth, love, beauty.

Classics, Fiction, France, Novel

Review: At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop (translated by Anna Moschovakis)

A potent depiction of war.

Contemporary, Fiction, France, Senegal, War, World War I

Review: Light by Eva Figes

A masterful, stroll-around-a-garden novella.

Art, British, Classics, Female writers, Fiction, France, Novella, Painting

Five new queer films to add to your watchlist

My pick of the recent Melbourne Queer Film Festival.

Film, France, Germany, Israel, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Mexico, Movies, queer
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