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Tag: Short stories

Review: A Couple Of Things Before The End by Sean O’Beirne

These stories are about traditional Aussie men, all at sea in their emotions.

Australian, Climate change, Contemporary, Short stories, Spec-fic, Speculative

Review: Shirl by Wayne Marshall

A whimsical, absurd and transgressive collection of stories about Australian masculinity.

Australian, Fiction, Short stories

Review: Here Until August by Josephine Rowe

Here Until August is an intriguing collection of 10 short stories. They often feel haunted and uncanny.

Australian, Short stories, Stella Prize

Review: The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab

I can’t say I enjoyed this book very much – it’s full of domestic tragedy – but I was impressed by its intensely claustrophobic mood.

Australian, Contemporary, Short stories, Stella Prize

Review: Runaway by Alice Munro

Alice Munro is often said to be the modern master of short stories. I can see why.

Fiction, Short stories

Review: Australia Day by Melanie Cheng

Australia Day is a revealing and uncomfortable diagnosis of Australia’s multicultural insecurities.

Australian, Short stories

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The hype is real about this one, and well deserved I reckon!
A friend lent me Ted Hughes’ poetry Crow to read. I was expecting it to be mad and it delivered.
I’m equally drawn to and unsettled by the Pacific Ocean - so much deep water, so little land. The fact that islands as far apart as Hawai’i, New Zealand and Easter Island were settled a long time ago by Polynesian people seems a near-impossible feat of navigation and endurance.
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