Category: Review

It has been over 25 years since the journal Aurealis was established. Its aim: to create a market for Australia’s healthy speculative fiction-reading population, and…

by HANNAH DONNELLY This story is part of a bloodline of Water Singers across four generations. Part I begins after the climate apocalypse. This is a world…

This is a review of Not Just Black and White by Lesley and Tammy Williams, our Bloc Club book of the month. Lesley Williams is a…

This is a  review, written by Katelin Farnsworth, of The Promise Seed, by Cass Moriarty. Told through first person and third person narrative, The Promise Seed, shortlisted for the…

This is a review, written by Charles Cave of The Best Australian Stories 2015.  Selections often say a great deal about their selector: so it is with The…

This is a review, written by Sonia Nair of The Best Australian Essays 2015.  Various; edited by Geordie Williamson The Australian’s chief literary critic, Geordie Williamson, kick-starts the anthology…

This is a review, written by Ali Schnabel of The Best Australian Poems 2015.  Various; edited by Geoff Page In the thirteenth year of the landmark Best Australian…

This is a review of The End of Seeing by Christy Collins, published by Seizure Online. Ana DuChamp’s husband Nick is a photojournalist from Melbourne.…

This is a review of The Uncanny Love of Jimmy Panagakos, a novella by Beth Hill. Reviewed by Ali Schnabel A tale of the secrets and loneliness…

This is a review of Patti Smith’s new book M Train. By Charles Cave. If your first introduction to Patti Smith is her new book, M…