Kokomo by Victoria Hannan
Kokomo is Victoria Hannan’s debut novel set in Melbourne, Australia. Mina lives in London and is urgently called home after years abroad...
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Christina Branco
Sep 15, 20204 min read
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
A byword is commonly associated to Boy Parts, Eliza Clarke's debut novel: Northern filth. I scan my bookshelf. I look at my Goodreads...
Areeb Ahmad
Sep 14, 20206 min read
FATHER MAY BE AN ELEPHANT AND MOTHER ONLY A SMALL BASKET, BUT… BY GOGU SHYAMALA
A standard definition of caste, found on Wikipedia, is “a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary...
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Sep 11, 20203 min read
Friday Book Debrief Vol 40
Every week we’re sharing what our some of our writers are currently reading. For all of our US readers, we now have our own Bookshop! You...
Courtney Dyer
Sep 10, 20204 min read
Heatstroke by Hazel Barkworth
When a young adolescent, Lily, goes missing one summer evening everyone is shaken by the disturbance to mundane normality. Rachel, who is...
Victoria Storm
Sep 9, 20207 min read
Pew By Catherine Lacey
Pew is what happens when you take a vague figure—genderless, young but hard to pin an exact age, racially ambiguous—and throw them into...
Karen Salgado
Sep 8, 20204 min read
The Seventh Mansion by Maryse Meijer
The beginning of this book begins with staccato sentences that leave you stalling at every turn. Took so much effort to invest. To want...
Karla Mendez
Sep 7, 20204 min read
Luster by Raven Leilani
At times it is hard to believe that Luster is Raven Leilani’s debut novel. She writes with the confidence and flair of a seasoned...
Iva Mihalic
Sep 5, 20204 min read
The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing by Joseph Fasano
The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing is without a doubt a refreshment, a story not important what about, but important how it is told. It...
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Sep 4, 20203 min read
Friday Book Debrief Vol 39
This week; Emily St John Mandel, Temi Oh, Madeline Miller, Jessica Goudeau, Guadalupe Nettel, Tessa Hadley, Elena Ferranta & more.
Marian Perales
Sep 3, 20204 min read
Daddy by Emma cline
Reviews of this book suggest Cline is good at telling a dark story. I didn’t read the stories as dark tales. Men often behave badly.
Courtney Dyer
Sep 2, 20205 min read
Poly By Paul Dalgarno
Poly is a charging force on the Australian literary scene; redefining ideas of a “happy family” in a more diverse, accepting, and less...
Mel Ann Rosenthal
Sep 2, 202010 min read
In Conversation with Elissa R. Sloan
"I comped Cassidy Holmes to Spice Girls crossed with Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng when I pitched it."
Mel Ann Rosenthal
Sep 1, 20208 min read
The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes by Elissa R. Sloan
For fans of Daisy Jones and the Six and Perfect Tunes, this debut novel comes out of the gates swinging, aiming directly for your heart.
Elaine Mead
Aug 31, 20204 min read
How to Be Australian by Ashley Kalagian Blunt
In this delightful, funny, and thought-provoking memoir, Canadian Ashley Kalagian-Blunt convinces her career-obsessed husband, Steve, to...
Jessica Maria
Aug 29, 20202 min read
Friday Book Debrief Vol 38
Every week we’re sharing what our some of our writers are currently reading. For all of our US readers, we now have our own Bookshop! You...
Courtney Dyer
Aug 27, 20205 min read
a lonely girl is a dangerous thing by jessie tu
If you are looking for the perfect book to binge over a weekend where it is just you, takeaway, and some wine this is the one to grab....
Jessica Maria
Aug 27, 20205 min read
Jessica Maria's Favorite Women In Translation Books
Welcome to a celebration of translated literature by women, thanks to Women In Translation Month. August became a month dedicated to...
Mel Ann Rosenthal
Aug 25, 20206 min read
One Year of Ugly by Caroline Mackenzie
“Trinidad likes to tout itself as this cosmopolitan melting pot, swirling with all the flavors of the race rainbow. But in fact, if...
Courtney Dyer
Aug 24, 20204 min read
READING IDENTITY CRISIS: Am I growing out of YA books?
In 2020 I vowed that I would only read what I really felt drawn and connected to, and if that meant deciding not to finish books simply...
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Aug 21, 20204 min read
Friday Book Debrief Vol 37
This week; Toni Morrison, Tom Perrotta, Emma Cline, Ocean Vuong, Carmen Maria Machado, Hank Green, Liane Moriarty, Adania Shibli & many more
Mel Ann Rosenthal
Aug 20, 202010 min read
In Conversation with Lynn Steger Strong
From October 2018 through September 2019, I was lucky enough to be taught by Lynn in Catapult’s Novel Generator class. It was a year-long...
Mel Ann Rosenthal
Aug 19, 20208 min read
Want by Lynn Steger Strong
If anyone, your closest friend, your mom, even a stranger, anyone, came up to you right now and asked you what you wanted more than...
Maggie Briana Chidester
Aug 18, 202011 min read
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women Of Color By Ruby Hamad
MAJOR TRIGGER WARNINGS THROUGHOUT THIS REVIEW: Racism, rape/sexual assault, domestic violence, colonization, exoticization, etc. You know...
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