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Tag: Melbourne

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

Review: Poly by Paul Dalgarno

Poly is a riot of a novel, an all out brawl.

Australian, Fiction, Melbourne, Novel, polyamory

Review: Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne

Cherry Beach is a painful portrait of millennial queer life, and agonising desire.

Canada, Contemporary, Fiction, lesbian, Melbourne, Millennial, queer

Review: The Adversary by Ronnie Scott

A story of gay frenemy-ship set in share-house inner Melbourne, uncovering uncomfortable truths about queer life and love.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, gay, Melbourne, Novel, queer

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“It's just the lottery of circumstance, a game she lost before she was even born. Lay down your arms, woman: this isn't a battle, it's a rout. And yet. And yet.”
Chinese writer Mo Yan won the 2012 Nobel Prize for his “hallucinatory realism”. That’s fully on display in this book about garlic farmers in 1980s China.
My fourth read from the #2021stellaprize shortlist is Evie Wyld’s forensic examination of misogyny in all its forms.
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