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BOOK REVIEW: The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt

October 18, 2022October 14, 2022Leave a comment

Georgia King deep dives into the emotional beast that is Sarah Holland-Batt's The Jaguar.

BOOK REVIEW: Love & Virtue by Diana Reid

October 13, 2022October 10, 2022Leave a comment

Amy Thompson opens the curtain to Reid's debut, Love & Virtue, and discusses points of intersectionality that is covered in the novel's fake university.

BOOK REVIEW: An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa

October 11, 2022October 10, 2022Leave a comment

Join Nick Xuereb in exploring the 'lonely, vain and desperate' lives that inhibit Paul Dalla Rosa's An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life.

BOOK REVIEW: Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh

September 8, 2022September 8, 2022Leave a comment

Thomas Huntington explores all that is ruinous and gritty in Ottessa Moshfegh's Lapvona.

BOOK REVIEW: Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen

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Everywhere there are fires burning. Joshua Klarica discusses Araluen's potent poems and essays in their collection: Dropbear.

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BOOK REVIEW: Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota

June 2, 2022August 7, 2022Leave a comment

In 2019, over two years before the publication of her book Emotional Female, Yumiko Kadota wrote a blog post titled ‘The ugly side of becoming a surgeon’. It’s a piece that hurts the moment it begins, with Kadota lamenting that she must ‘surrender…[her] dream of becoming a surgeon.’

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BOOK REVIEW: No Document by Anwen Crawford

April 28, 2022August 7, 2022Leave a comment

Anwen Crawford’s No Document is many things: a letter to a lost friend; a history of art and protest; a practice of redaction and remembering; a call to action; and a lament. No Document is a text made up of fragments.

Reinterpreting Titles: When Books Cross the Sea

April 14, 2022May 12, 2022Leave a comment

I love languages, and as a person from Chinese diaspora I’m aware that there is something fascinating about my own language—how it can encapsulate so much more than English, but with fewer characters. So what about English-to-Chinese translations—especially in book titles, which convey the whole story at a glance?

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BOOK REVIEW: Theory of Colours by Bella Li

March 17, 2022August 7, 2022Leave a comment

In Theory of Colours, Bella Li’s third full-length poetry collection, a planet slides into entropy. Inspired by poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s treatise of the same name, Li blurs distinctions between absence and presence to create a haunting meditation on the universe.

BOOK REVIEW: We Were Not Men by Campbell Mattinson

October 12, 2021August 7, 2022Leave a comment

We Were Not Men tells the story of Jon and Eden Hardacre, twin brothers who are ejected from their childhood by the tragic death of their parents.

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