Germaine Greer Is A Hateful Bigot
Noted transphobe and feminist theorist Germaine Greer has yet again lurched into the newsweek with trenchant and scintillating commentary on the trans experience, via dehumanising and misgendering...
Category: Oceania
How A New Generation of Graphic Novels Are Portraying Migration
Graphic Journalism is emerging as one of the most compelling ways to talk about an urgent issue: migration. From Persepolis to Vietnamerica, authors are creating stories where the political history...
The Chimes by Anna Smaill (Man Booker Longlist #3)
New Zealander Anna Smaill’s debut novel is an interesting choice for the Man Booker longlist. It crosses at least one, and I suspect, two, general Booker taboos – it’s genre fiction, and it...
Review: Sofie Laguna’s The Eye of the Sheep
Australian author Sofie Laguna’s second novel for adults, The Eye of the Sheep, won the Miles Franklin Award on 23 June. It was a well-deserved win of Australia’s richest literary prize by a book...
Aboriginal Royalty at the Venice Biennale: Interview with artist Reko Rennie
First were the fuchsia kangaroos appearing in Paris' arrondissements. Then neon canvases were seen in galleries and museums from Adelaide to New York. Next thing you know, colourful diamond patterns...
Review: Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon
A couple of years ago, when it first came out, Andrew Solomon’s 10-years-in-the-making magnum opus, Far from the Tree, was the book du jour in Australian book-reading parenting circles. I missed it...
Review – Mad Max: Fury Road
There is a scene in the 1993 German war film “Stalingrad” where a bronzed platoon of elite storm troopers victorious from the lightening battles in the West and North Africa confront their dead...
Review: “Only the Animals” by Ceridwen Dovey
Australia’s newest literary prize, the Stella Award (for writing by women) was bestowed on debut novelist Emily Bitto less than a month ago, for her novel about two children growing up as part of a...
Can We Prevent Violence? The Stories We Tell Ourselves
It hasn’t been the best month in Australia. As we hurtle towards the year’s end and summer takes hold, the headlines have been far from the usual froth and bubble of December lifestyle...
Australia’s Islamophobia Problem
It’s a scary time to be Muslim in Australia. On 18 September, anti-terrorism raids in connection with IS were conducted in Sydney and Brisbane. Australia’s terror alert has also been raised from...