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    Reviewer: Nathania Gilson

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    Culture April 03, 2021

    A Room Called Earth

    It’s the day before Christmas Eve in Melbourne. There’s a party. And the unnamed narrator of Madeleine Ryan’s debut novel, A Room Called Earth, is getting ready to go out and meet people. Instead of keeping us at arm’s length, Ryan’s …

    Culture May 16, 2020

    Sex and Lies

    Sex and Lies speaks in doublethink: having freedom, as long as it’s secret; erasing the idea of sexuality, while building a capitalist system where a woman’s worth can be measured in profitability. But this is less an Orwellian world than …

    Culture October 24, 2020

    Home Time II: Beyond the Weaving

    When faced with tricky life-or-death decisions, the preteens of Australian graphic novel series Home Time don’t tread lightly or seek parental approval: as one of them says, “Now’s the time to ruin everything by doing something totally …

    Culture February 22, 2020

    The Inland Sea

    The unnamed narrator of Madeleine Watts’ debut novel is an emergency dispatch phone operator. She’s spending her last year in Sydney making bad decisions: drinking too much, sleeping with the wrong men, wanting to escape overseas but seduced by the …



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