Tracing the lives of a brother and sister, the plot of Tidelines has a clear destination, with every incident pointing us in that direction.
Browsing: Books
If bookstores are at the forefront of shaping a literary culture, why is it that Australia’s strong community of indie bookstores yields such a fragmented literary identity?
The toxic tropes of masculinity and abuse of women in her books should revoke Sarah J. Maas’ entitlement to market herself and her novels as feminist.
Beatrice, one of the protagonists, tries to resist this novelisation, embodying the revolutionary who lives, eats, and breathes in political ideals; a figure that belongs not in a novel, but in a history textbook.
Maybe I am a mess. Maybe neither I nor Bridget are messes. Maybe you aren’t a mess. Perhaps, we are all just trying our best, and maybe just maybe that is good enough.
Kuang is very aware of her radical purpose: “I am a Western author writing to a Western audience in a Western literary tradition.”
An understated piece of art, The Quiet Girl is one of those films that stays with you long after you leave the cinema. In few words, it speaks to being quiet in a noisy world — perhaps the deepest connections transcend language.
What Harper has done is crucial and commendable. Exiles symbolises a modern Australia willing to abandon a reductionist view of domestic abuse.
In his 2022 memoir, Stay True, Hua Hsu illustrates how a young self is formed.
Thoughts on Natalia Ginzburg’s All Our Yesterdays.