Review: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Grapes Of Wrath remains a bracingly strange novel about ecological crisis eight decades after it was published.

Review: There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett

A sweet and simple story about growing up in parallel worlds, Melbourne and Prague in 1980.

A hilarious novel about mortality and ageing.

Celestial Bodies achieves a kind of literary perfection.

The Bell is like a delicious and unlikely combination of two Luca Guadagnino films: Call Me By Your Name and Suspiria.

In 2019 I gravitated to stories of radical, political change (can you blame me?), and there seemed to be a surplus available.

Girl, Woman, Other is a book intensely concerned with the politics of identity and creativity, and how they have shifted over the 20th century.

The Obelisk Gate is the second part of N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, set in alternative world known ironically as the Stillness.

Caravaggio perfected painting people at the exact moment when dark gives way to light. In Damascus, Tsolkias achieves the same effect in words.