Reviews
Exhibition review: Bee Stung Lips – Barbara Hanrahan, FUMA, Adelaide
The print maker's short but intensely creative life continues to inspire.
Book review: Small Joys of Real Life, Allee Richards, Hachette
Friendship, desire, and growing up. In her debut novel, Allee Richard’s accepts that sometimes all you can do is be…
Book review: She is Haunted, Paige Clark, Allen & Unwin
A bitingly clever short story collection about life, loss, relationships, and identity.
Book review: The Advocates, Robyn Gulliver and Jill L. Ferguson, Melbourne University Press
Canvassing the stories of women at the frontline of environmental action.
Festival review: Pop Up North Queensland (PUNQ 2021), Townsville and surrounding regional towns
The festival's third iteration is the most ambitious yet in this sprawling and collaborative venture across the region.
Book review: The Only One in the World, edited by Narrelle Harris, Clan Destine Press
A prize-winning collection that riffs on the stories and mythology of Sherlock Holmes is sheer, unadulterated fun.
Theatre review: Durkh a Modne Gloz, Kadimah Yiddish Theatre, Melbourne
An engaging fusion of Yiddish poems and cabaret, but the experiment didn't always work.
Book review: Killing Sydney, Elizabeth Farrelly, Pan Macmillan
A passionate cri de coeur to diagnose the ills of the city and save it from overdevelopment.
Book review: Dark as Last Night, Tony Birch, UQP
A collection of stories with shards of light peering through the darkness.
Book review: The Last Guests, J.P.Pomare, Hachette
A panic-inducing thriller with all the right ingredients to keep you guessing to the end.