A gripping and exhausting, funny and despairing, and completely compelling account of living with grief.
Tag: Nonfiction
Five gay things I learned from The Boy In The Dress
A story of a murder in the 1940s becomes a much bigger, and queerer, tale of Australia’s history.
Review: Otherlands by Thomas Halliday
A safari through time with an urgent message about the future.
Review: No Document by Anwen Crawford
An investigation into breaking down old ones and making new ones.
Review: Good Indian Daughter by Ruhi Lee
Lee’s memoir is a complicated depiction of parents and parenting.
Review: Things I Don’t Want To Know by Deborah Levy
Deborah Levy concisely summarises what makes her own writing so compelling.
Review: Fourteen by Shannon Malloy
A harrowing memoir of growing up gay in regional Australia.
Review: Under A White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert
A gripping, frightening and weirdly hopeful look at the lengths we’ll have to go to to fix global problems.
Review: Flames Of Extinction by John Pickrell
A urgent stocktake of the Black Summer, which burned a fifth of Australia’s forests.
Review: Witness by Louise Milligan
A blistering indictment of the treatment of victims of sex crimes by the legal system.