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Tag: Indigenous writers

The best books I’ve read 2020

The books that have had the biggest impact on me this year.

Argentina, Australian, Classics, Contemporary, End of year review, Environment, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Nonfiction, Novel

Review: Fire Country by Victor Steffensen

Victor Steffensen offers a language to articulate here we want to go and how to get there.

Australian, Climate change, Environment, Indigenous writers

Review: After Australia (edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad)

“Australia is just a glitch,” writes Wiradjuri writer Hannah Donnelly. After Australia is a collection of speculative fiction that explores what Australia is, and could be.

Anthology, Australian, Fiction, Indigenous history, Indigenous writers, Racism

Review: Throat by Ellen van Neerven

Ellen van Neerven conjures magic from trauma in this fluid collection full of warmth and light.

Australian, Indigenous writers, Poetry

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A new Alexis Wright book is something to anticipate feverishly and with a little trepidation. Her latest, vast novel is her most intimidating yet, a 700-page “open-wound theatre” about the town of Praiseworthy on the Gulf country of northern Australia.
I read this amazing book a little while ago, and it’s had a powerful impact on the way I look and listen to the world around me. It’s a beautiful history of family and country that richly evokes Debra Dank’s Gudanji land in the dust and gravel country of the south-western Gulf Of Carpentaria.
This retelling of E. M. Forster’s Maurice is a fast-paced, horny exercise in wish fulfilment, told from the perspective of Maurice’s lover Alec.
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