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Tag: Journalism

Review: Desire Paths by Megan Clement

Defence of movement.

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

Review: What Have You Left Behind? by Bushra Al-Maqtari (translated by Sawad Hussain)

A record of the atrocities of war in Yemen.

Journalism, Middle East, Nonfiction, War, Yemen

Review: The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

Photojournalist and gambler Maali Almeida is dead. He wakes with no memory in a white waiting room where Helpers try … More

Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Journalism, LGBTIQ, Novel, Photography, Sri Lanka, War

Review: Witness by Louise Milligan

A blistering indictment of the treatment of victims of sex crimes by the legal system.

Australian, Journalism, Legal System, Nonfiction, Sexual assault, Stella Prize
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