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Review: The Orphan Gunner by Sara Knox

This queer WWII novel soars.

Australian, British, Classics, Fiction, Historical, lesbian, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer, War, World War II

Review: Both by Douglas Crase

Art as science, science as art.

Art, Biography, Botany, LGBTIQ, New York, Plants, queer, science, Taxonomy, US

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: Iris by Fiona Kelly McGregor

The lesbian answer to Ned Kelly.

1930s, Australian, Fiction, Historical, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer, Sydney

Review: The Selected Poems Of Frank O’Hara (edited by Donald Allen)

“Everything is in the poems,” Frank O’Hara writes in the manifesto that introduces this selection, in which he describes and … More

LGBTIQ, New York, Poetry, queer, US

Review: Mood by Roz Bellamy

A vital memoir of mental illness.

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

Review: The Modern by Anna Kate Blair

Love, sex, marriage, work and New York deconstructed.

Art, Australian, Bisexual, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, New York, Novel, queer

Review: W. H. Auden: Poems Selected By John Fuller

Poetry that belies Auden’s training as a scientist.

Classics, England, gay, Poetry, queer

Five films from the Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2023

Queer films to add to your watchlist (or not!).

Film, Melbourne, MQFF, queer

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