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Tag: History

Review: The Dawn Of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow

A big history of people that demolishes the myth of progress.

Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Nonfiction, Politics

Five gay things I learned from The Boy In The Dress

A story of a murder in the 1940s becomes a much bigger, and queerer, tale of Australia’s history.

Australian, Crime, History, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, queer, True crime, World War II

Review: Sea People by Christina Thompson

A riveting and passionate tale of intellectual inquiry into the origins of Polynesia.

History, Nonfiction, Pacific Ocean, Polynesia

Review: Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend

The Fifth Sun is a fascinating, scholarly and moving portrayal of a people surviving colonisation.

Aztecs, History, Mexico, Nonfiction

Review: Feasting Wild by Gina Rae La Cerva

A moving and compelling investigation into wild food and the practices of hunting and gathering, and by extension, humanity’s whole relationship to nature.

Colonialism, Conservation, Environment, History, Indigenous history, Nonfiction

Review: Truganini by Cassandra Pybus

In Truganini, historian Cassandra Pybus attempts to “release” a woman from colonial myth-making. It is a shattering book.

Australian, Biography, Colonialism, Environment, History, Indigenous history, Nonfiction, Tasmania

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I’ve been enjoying reading the two Pulitzer-winning plays of Tennessee Williams.
You‘ve probably seen the memes: A historian contemplates two women who lived together their entire lives and never married men. Friends? the historian wonders.
The second of Yumna Kassab’s books is much like the first, a novel in pieces. Set in and around Tamworth, NSW, it is a deeply human portrait of communities dealing with the challenges of rural life: isolation, tribalism, suicide and above all drought.
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