Review | Winter
This is a review of Ali Smith's Winter When we look back on right now – 2017, nearly Christmas, in the midst of one of the biggest man...
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Review | No Way! Okay, Fine
This is a review of Brodie Lancaster's No Way! Okay, Fine We can’t help but view the world through a lens of popular culture –...
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Review: Down The Hume, by Peter Polites
Cameron Colwell reviews Peter Polite's debut novel Down The Hume. Peter Polites’ Down the Hume is a rough and occasionally vicious exp...
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All About (Certain Kinds of) Women
Scarlett Harris reports from Sydney's All About Women Festival. Author of the books The Dead Ladies Project, The Creative Tarot,&...
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The Zen Kitchen
This is a review of Adam Liaw's The Zen Kitchen: Easy Japanese Recipes for Home Cooks. Too often cookbooks are treated as instruction manual...
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Talking Writing: Who’s Writing Who?
This is a review of Talking Writing: Who's Writing Who? – a NSW Writers' Centre discussion and showcase of cultural diversity in Australian wr...
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Review – Weird Sydney
This is a review of NSW Writer's Centre's live event, Weird Sydney. Woolahra Library was gifted an intriguing set of presentat...
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Review – Their Brilliant Careers
This is a review of Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers by Ryan O'Neill. ...
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Review | A Loving, Faithful Animal
This is a review, of Josephine Rowe's A Loving, Faithful Animal. Josephine Rowe’s debut novel, A loving, faithful animal, s...
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Review: Aurealis #87
This is a review of Aurealis #87, edited by Dirk Strasser Raphaelle Race It has been over 25 years since the journal Aurealis was es...
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Review | Not Just Black and White
This is a review of Not Just Black and White by Lesley and Tammy Williams, our Bloc Club book of the month. Lesley Williams is...
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Middlesex: Bloc Club Notes
This is a Bloc Club post, where we invite a writer to discuss this month's Bloc Club book, Middlesex. Look, I haven’t read The Virgin Suicides....
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Review | The Promise Seed
This is a review, written by Katelin Farnsworth, of The Promise Seed, by Cass Moriarty. Told through first p...
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Review | The Best Australian Stories 2015
This is a review, written by Charles Cave of The Best Australian Stories 2015. Selections often say a great deal about t...
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Review | The Best Australian Essays
This is a review, written by Sonia Nair of The Best Australian Essays 2015. Various; edited by Geordie Wi...
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Best Australian Poems 2015
This is a review, written by Ali Schnabel of The Best Australian Poems 2015. Various; edited by Geoff Page ...
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Review | The End of Seeing
This is a review of The End of Seeing by Christy Collins, published by Seizure Online. Ana DuChamp’s husband Nick is a photojournalist ...
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Review | The Uncanny Love of Jimmy Panagakos
This is a review of The Uncanny Love of Jimmy Panagakos, a novella by Beth Hill. Reviewed by Ali Schnabel A tale of the se...
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Take The M Train
This is a review of Patti Smith's new book M Train. By Charles Cave. If your first introduction to Patti Smith is her new book, M Trai...