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On Drugs by Chris Fleming
Academic Chris Fleming’s memoir is confronting, interesting, reassuring and offers insight into who and what drug addicts are.
Solitary by Albert Woodfox
Solitary is a powerful insight into the fractured US prison system and a heartening story of human rights and justice.
Book Review: Empirical by Lisa Gorton
Gorton’s meditations take on a contemporary romanticism towards Melbourne and contrast it with the history of empire.
Book Review: Dead Right by Richard Denniss
Dead Right shows us that economics is not a force of nature but something voters and politicians are directly in…
Review: Wake In Fright, Malthouse Theatre (VIC)
Zahra Newman performs Kenneth Cook's Australian Gothic story of alcoholism and machismo in this one-woman show directed by Declan Greene.
Book Review: Halibut on the Moon by David Vann
Halibut on the Moon is a tragic biographical fiction on divorce, the nuclear family, maleness, guns and suicidal depression.
Book Review: City of Trees by Sophie Cunningham
Cunningham’s essays on love, travel and nature humanise trees and animals, mixing the Anthropocene with the romantic.
Book Review: A Season on Earth by Gerald Murnane
A fantastic introduction for serious fiction readers and a panoramic view of one of Melbourne's most important literary characters.
Book Review: Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany
The strange and dangerous psychological space Tiffany inhabits focuses on small details that make up the whole.
Book Review: What I Like About Me by Jenna Guillaume
Guillaume's debut YA novel chooses to uplift rather than shoot teenagers in a barrel. And that's laudable.