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Tag: War

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: Anam by André Dao

History as speculative fiction.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Novel, Refugees, Vietnam, War

Review: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Survival in authoritarian Ireland.

Contemporary, Fiction, Ireland, Novel, Speculative, War

Best books I’ve read 2023

2023 reviewed.

Anthology, Australian, Classics, Colonialism, Contemporary, End of year review, Female writers, Fiction, History, India, Indigenous history, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Memoir, Nonfiction, Novel, Racism, Short stories, Speculative, speculative fiction, War, Year in review

Review: What Have You Left Behind? by Bushra Al-Maqtari (translated by Sawad Hussain)

A record of the atrocities of war in Yemen.

Journalism, Middle East, Nonfiction, War, Yemen

Review: The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

Photojournalist and gambler Maali Almeida is dead. He wakes with no memory in a white waiting room where Helpers try … More

Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Journalism, LGBTIQ, Novel, Photography, Sri Lanka, War

Review: Alec by William di Canzio

A sexy flip of E. M. Forster’s illicit queer romance.

Fiction, gay, Historical, LGBTIQ, Novel, UK, War, World War I

Review: My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden

Sally Hayden exposes the cruelty and corruption of the EU’s refugee policies.

Europe, Human rights, Italy, Libya, Migration, Nonfiction, Refugees, War

Review: The Island Of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

A sweeping, grandiose tale of love and war.

Contemporary, Cyprus, Fiction, Novel, Romance, Turkey, UK, War

Review: At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop (translated by Anna Moschovakis)

A potent depiction of war.

Contemporary, Fiction, France, Senegal, War, World War I

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