I wonder if Geek Love would have survived cancel culture
I have to admit that I felt more than a little uneasy reading Katherine Dunn’s cult classic, Geek Love ……
I have to admit that I felt more than a little uneasy reading Katherine Dunn’s cult classic, Geek Love ……
There are a lot of reasons to disagree at the moment. We can argue endlessly about the advantages and disadvantages…
The last book I read was fabulous. Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women shocked me, and moved me, and changed me. When…
I visited the charity shop earlier in the week and was thrilled to find Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies,…
I’m about to start reading The Dictionary of Lost Words and I can’t get into it quickly enough. You see,…
Elliot Perlman’s Maybe the Horse Will Talk is entirely different from his other books I have read – Three Dollars…
Like last year, when it took me months to plough through The Brothers Karamazov, this year my reading has been…
Sometimes I really hate it when writers open their mouths. I was reminded of this recently when I heard that…
None of us thought we’d be here, did we? As Melbourne endures its fourth lockdown, we're all feeling a little…
Some of my favourite narrators are children. It can be incredibly moving to immerse yourself in the life of a…