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Review: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

A tale of despair, illness and poverty that captures the swooping highs and devastating lows of life.

Contemporary, gay, Glasgow, Man Booker prize, Novel, queer, Scotland

Review: The Adventures Of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (translated by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre)

Lesbians! Cowboys! Argentina!

Argentina, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Indigenous Americans, LGBTIQ, Man Booker International, Novel, queer

Review: Guillotine by Eduardo C. Corral

These are brutal, bruised poems, like desert storms, lit with lightning strokes of beauty.

LGBTIQ, Mexico, Migrants, Poetry, queer, US

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: Cleanness by Garth Greenwell

Cleanness is a book of lofty ideas, grounded in the flesh.

Bulgaria, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer

Review: The Tradition by Jericho Brown

The tradition is violation: of the land, of women, and especially black men’s bodies.

Contemporary, Poetry, Pulitzer, queer, US

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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