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Tag: Racism

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.

Anthology, Australian, Fiction, Indigenous history, Indigenous writers, Racism

The best books I’ve read 2019

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

Australian, Fiction, Novel, Racism, Review, Year in review

Review: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

Robin DiAngelo’s book is a measured, deeply considered and provoking guide to taking white fragility apart.

Nonfiction, Racism, Review

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“It's just the lottery of circumstance, a game she lost before she was even born. Lay down your arms, woman: this isn't a battle, it's a rout. And yet. And yet.”
Chinese writer Mo Yan won the 2012 Nobel Prize for his “hallucinatory realism”. That’s fully on display in this book about garlic farmers in 1980s China.
My fourth read from the #2021stellaprize shortlist is Evie Wyld’s forensic examination of misogyny in all its forms.
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