Reviews

In contrasting ways, Sam Vincent’s memoir My Father and Other Animals and Rick Morton’s anthology Growing Up in Country Australia complicate clichéd notions of rural life.

Why has it taken me so long to write this review of The Most Important Job in the World? Whenever I…

These two speculative works offer visions of the future in which the earth is devastated. Each involves humans living disrupted, transformed lives – defying or redefining extinction, carrying on, muddling through.

I am looking for something to say about the short story as a category, something to distinguish it, and my mind alights on the word ‘fun’.

Is Garbes’s unifying vision enough to confront what we are up against? Or is radical motherhood only the first stop on the road to mass politics for collective justice?

What Fugitive does is to enact the sensation that emerges when you play or listen to music: a tactile excitement, a kinaesthetic sense of the sacred

In Sophie Cunningham’s This Devastating Fever, tiny comets blaze across the pages. Connecting disparate histories, their orbits disrupt the order of…

Skrzynecki writes as a storyteller who recalls nature, family, and friends, as well as time and place, with narratological detail.

If Australia were invaded, should it be defended? This is the question at the heart of a short essay by Guy Rundle published…

By beginning Case Notes with poems about dogs, David Stavanger establishes from the beginning that his book is not purely the interrogation of the archival self, of self-research, that we might imagine from its title.