Reviews
Review: Awake, Dancenorth (QLD)
An apt response for the times we live in.
Book Review: Honeybee by Craig Silvey
The author of popular Australian novel Jasper Jones has returned with a new tale of identity and self.
Visual Art Review: Fuse Glass Prize and Seed Stitch Textile Award (ADC)
Same same but different; this pairing of Awards works! Australian Design Centre exhibits the shapeshifters defining contemporary glass and textiles…
Book Review: Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
This ambitious and original novel cements Murata’s reputation as an iconoclastic talent to her new audience of English-language readers.
Book Review: On Beverley Farmer: Writers on Writers by Josephine Rowe
Rowe describes Farmer’s essay collection The Bone House as ‘a work of restless genius and unshakeable focus’.
Performing Arts Review: ASO: Konstantin Plays Beethoven (SA)
The ASO continues its celebration of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary year.
Book Review: Poly by Paul Dalgarno
In a post Fifty Shades of Grey world, Poly is another story with sex at its heart.
Performing Arts Review: Venus and Adonis, St David’s Cathedral (TAS)
Theatre reinvents itself through lush, sexy storytelling in a sacred space.
Visual Arts Review: A Promise – Khaled Sabsabi, AGNSW
Sabsabi has the capacity to provoke deep questioning of our own racial, religious and political positioning without ostracising the viewer…
Book Review: The Mission House by Carys Davies
Davies’ novel seeks to make connections with faith and nationalism in contemporary India.