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Tag: Memoir

Review: Desire Paths by Megan Clement

Defence of movement.

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

Review: Detachable Penis by Sam Elkin

The boundary between the professional and personal is arbitrary.

Australian, Contemporary, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Transgender

The Art and Ethics of Jeffrey Smart

A life of art.

19, Art, Australian, History, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, Painting, queer, Queer history

Review: The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel

The costs and compromises of desire.

Australian, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, queer, Stella Prize

Review: Eventually, Everything Connects by Sarah Firth

Sly, whimsical, existential essays.

Australian, Contemporary, Essays, Graphic novel, Memoir

Review: Mood by Roz Bellamy

A vital memoir of mental illness.

Australian, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Mental illness, Nonfiction, queer

Best books I’ve read 2023

2023 reviewed.

Anthology, Australian, Classics, Colonialism, Contemporary, End of year review, Female writers, Fiction, History, India, Indigenous history, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Memoir, Nonfiction, Novel, Racism, Short stories, Speculative, speculative fiction, War, Year in review

Review: The Years by Annie Ernaux

A generational reckoning.

Classics, France, History, Memoir, Nobel Laureate, Nonfiction

Review: We Come With This Place by Debra Dank

A rich and beautiful history of family and place.

Australian, Historical, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous history, Indigenous writers, Memoir, Nonfiction

Review: big beautiful female theory by Eloise Grills

A gorgeous and liberatory collection of illustrated essays and memoir.

Essays, Female writers, Feminism, Illustrated, Memoir, Nonfiction, Stella Prize

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