A powerful retelling of the last 500 years of history – and where we go next.
Tag: Nonfiction
Review: Passionate Friends by Sylvia Martin
A warm and erudite biography of love between to women in the early 20th century.
Review: The Dawn Of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
A big history of people that demolishes the myth of progress.
Review: Found, Wanting by Natasha Sholl
A gripping and exhausting, funny and despairing, and completely compelling account of living with grief.
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.
