It is a rare thing indeed to come across a book which is simultaneously page-turningly riveting, emotionally resonant and immeasurably clever without being insufferable. Bruny by the incomparable Heather Rose (The Museum of Modern Love) is just such a book, one which explores the murky political and personal aftermath of Continue Reading
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Book review: The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy #1) by M. R. Carey
In a world connected by jet planes, the internet and worldwide production chains, we take it as a given that getting things done fast and staying connected as we do so will always be a fact of life. But prolific writer M. R. Carey (The Girl With All the Gifts, Continue Reading
Book review: The Octopus and I by Erin Hortle
When you or someone you love is diagnosed with cancer, there are a million different things (or it feels like that, anyway) that you have to deal with, usually in a very short amount of time. What’s my prognosis? Are my options plentiful or not? Should I undergo chemotherapy or Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Human by Zack Jordan
If you take a look at the vast majority of sci-fi tales, humanity is everywhere … and in multitudinous profusion. Oft times we are the leading light of the universe, other times reviled but we are always there, somewhere, Terrans in the mix who make the galaxy go round. But Continue Reading
Book review: The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham
Finding your way through the many challenges that growing up demands is difficult at the best of times but even more, when the world in which all this growing up is taking place is almost inimical to this most universal of human transitions. Sonny, the protagonist of Vivian Pham’s evocatively Continue Reading
Book review: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
We all know that for all its occasional beauty and moments of fleeting inspiration, that we live in a broken, bestial and horrific world. That’s not being downbeat, simply realistic. The horrors of inequality, cruelty, abuse and murderous intent are all laid grimly bare in Deepa Anaparra‘s luminously revelatory book Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Books come beautifully alive with thematically-perfect paper sculptures
I have been reading books ever since my teachers taught me to understand how magically transportive stringing all kinds of letters could be and so, the idea that books are alive always felt very much the case every time I opened a new written adventure. Artist Bethany Bickley has given Continue Reading
Book review: The Library of Lost Things by Laura Taylor Namey
Books are an escape for many people. Whether you’re a kid trying to pretend the bullies aren’t trying to bash down your existential door or that your family isn’t a chaotic mess of dysfunction, or an adult for whom reality is one searingly painful event too many, books offer a Continue Reading
Book review: Five stories from Star Wars – From a Certain Point of View by various authors #Maythe4thbewithyou
It has been a long time since I first saw what has been retroactively titled Star Wars: A New Hope, but at the time I saw it in a small one-screen cinema in coastal Ballina, NSW (Australia) was simply good old Star Wars, and you would think by now that Continue Reading
What makes Chewbacca tick? Looper entertainingly explores his backstory this Star Wars Day #Maythe4thBeWithYou
SNAPSHOTWhy is his weapon so different from almost everyone else’s? Why does he talk like that when he clearly understands different languages? Is Chewbacca his actual given name? We took a deep dive into Star Wars lore to find what makes this Wookiee tick. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Poor Chewie. Continue Reading