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Tag: Racism
Review: Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
Poetry that writes back against colonial inequity.
Best books I’ve read 2023
2023 reviewed.
Review: Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Spartacus meets Never Let Me Go.
Review: If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
A bruising novel investigating how love and desire operate under systems of power.
Review: A Passage To India by E. M. Forster
A clear-sighted and damning depiction of India under the British Raj.
Review: Root And Branch by Eda Gunaydin
A compelling search for origins.
Review: Sex And Vanity by Kevin Kwan
A fizzy adaptation of E. M. Forster’s A Room With A View.
Review: China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
A slight but full novel set in 1920s and 1990s Punjab.
Review: After Australia (edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad)
“Australia is just a glitch,” writes Wiradjuri writer Hannah Donnelly. After Australia is a collection of speculative fiction that explores what Australia is, and could be.
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