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Books September 01, 2018
Normal People
As high school concludes, Connell is faced with a forked path: follow his friends to Galway, the predictable route chosen by working-class boys in West Ireland, or pursue his adolescent tryst with Marianne to Dublin to study literature at Trinity College. …
Books July 21, 2018
We See the Stars
Kids at school say Simon is “weird”. His brother Davey questions why he never speaks. Grandma secretly takes him to various doctors, while Mum won’t get out of bed. Cassie, his first friend in years, affectionately calls him “numpty”. In Simon’s …
Books August 18, 2018
No Country Woman
“Family and selflessness are at the heart of the culture that I was raised within,” writes Zoya Patel, whose debut memoir charts the “mishmash” of her Fijian–Indian–Australian heritage. “Self-determination is a conceit, and the wellbeing …
Books June 30, 2018
When Elephants Fight
Introducing They Cannot Take the Sky, a collection of testimonies from people in detention on Manus and Nauru, Christos Tsiolkas wrote of the intellectual abstraction necessary to make refugees’ futures fodder for public debate: “We forget …
