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Tag: LGBTIQ

Review: Boulder by Eva Baltasar (translated by Julia Sanchez)

A juicy domestic horror.

Contemporary, Fiction, lean ian, LGBTIQ, Man Booker International, Novel, queer

Review: Shirley by Ronnie Scott

Ronnie Scott renders pre-pandemic life scintillatingly strange.

Australian, Contemporary, COVID-19, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Novel

Review: Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones

Taught and supple as leather, menacing and poignant.

British, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer

Best books I’ve read 2022

My favourite reads of the year.

Australian, Contemporary, End of year review, Environment, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Novel, Poetry, queer, Year in review

Review: Modern Nature by Derek Jarman

Sex, death, life, art — this diary about a garden has it all.

Diary, HIV/AIDS, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, UK

Review: Tomb Of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell)

An epic novel that pushes at the boundedness of things.

Contemporary, Fiction, India, LGBTIQ, Man Booker International, Novel, queer, Transgender, Translation

Review: Against Disappearance (edited by Leah Jing McIntosh and Adolfo Aranjuez)

A challenging, demanding and exciting collection of nonfiction.

Australian, Essays, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Writers of colour

Sex and death with Tennessee Williams

In his two Pulitzer-winning plays Tennessee Williams puts the light on the shadowy corners of desire.

America, Classics, gay, LGBTIQ, Play, Pulitzer, USA

Review: Passionate Friends by Sylvia Martin

A warm and erudite biography of love between to women in the early 20th century.

Australian, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, queer

Review: An Exciting And Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rossa

Stories that illuminate the condition of the modern world.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, gay, LGBTIQ, queer, Short stories

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