Reviews
Book Review: Collisions: Fictions of the Future
An anthology featuring the best pieces from Liminal magazine’s inaugural fiction prize 2020.
Exhibition Review: Real Worlds - Dobell Drawing Biennial (AGNSW)
The Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial continues to be a pint sized power pack that ushers us through new thinking and…
Book Review: No Friend but the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani
No Friend But The Mountains is a classic for our times, a cri de coeur that shows us the human…
Book Review: Hysteria by Katerina Bryant
Hysteria is the story of Bryant’s illness – her attempt to make sense of her symptoms, secure a diagnosis and,…
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.