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Tag: Stella Prize

Review: Translations by Jumaana Abdu

Structures of violence.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Palestine, Stella Prize

Review: The Burrow by Melanie Cheng

Grief in the pandemic.

Australian, Contemporary, COVID-19, Fiction, Novel, Stella Prize

Best books I’ve read 2024

Books to prevent enshittification.

Australian, Classics, Colonialism, Contemporary, End of year review, Environment, Fiction, Historical, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Novel, Poetry, Stella Prize, Year in review

Review: Hospital by Sanya Rushdi (translated by Arunava Sinha)

‘Can people hear me think? Let them.’

Australian, Contemporary, Mental illness, Novel, Stella Prize

Review: The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel

The costs and compromises of desire.

Australian, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, queer, Stella Prize

Review: Feast by Emily O’Grady

Grotesque and decadent.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Scotland, Stella Prize

Review: Abandon Every Hope by Hayley Singer

Why don’t we speak or think of what happens in abattoirs and slaughterhouses?

Animals, Australian, Essays, Ethics, Nonfiction, Stella Prize

Review: Body Friend by Katherine Brabon

A meticulous study of pain.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Stella Prize

Review: The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt

Poetry as still life.

Australian, Poetry, Stella Prize

Review: big beautiful female theory by Eloise Grills

A gorgeous and liberatory collection of illustrated essays and memoir.

Essays, Female writers, Feminism, Illustrated, Memoir, Nonfiction, Stella Prize

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