Reviews
Book review: Tony Wheeler's Islands of Australia by Tony Wheeler
This is a book for the traveller, the hiker, the swimmer, the diver, and – in a timely coincidence –…
Book review: The Simple Shift by Chris Helder
The Simple Shift will come in handy right now for anyone struggling as a result of social isolation.
Book review: Death of a Typographer by Nick Gadd
Death of a Typographer is a Melbourne-noir murder mystery with a successfully fantastical and complex plot.
Book review: Almost a Mirror by Kirsten Krauth
A novel of reminiscence for a different time: 1980s Australia and its rumbustious music scene.
Review: MSO Live | Stravinsky Double Bill
With concert halls closed for the foreseeable future, the MSO is presenting livestream and pre-recorded concerts online.
What to read in isolation: book reviewers recommend
Looking for a great Australian book to lose yourself in during isolation? Read our reviewers favourite picks.
Book review: Fighting for our Lives by Nick Cook
In the early 1980s, a then unknown virus, later identified as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), began to infect people…
Book review: Elephants with Headlights by Bem Le Hunte
Le Hunte uses the characters of two young people to explore cultural differences.
Book review: Coniston by Michael Bradley
What could be Australia’s last and least known genocide is laid bare in Coniston, which occurred just more than 100…
Book review: Aftershocks by Anthony Macris
Aftershocks is Macris’ selected interviews, essays and criticism as he asks, what comes after postmodernism in art?