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Book Review: Sweetness and Light
Liam Pieper’s latest novel sees two white westerners – an Australian hustler and an American divorcee in an ‘Eat Pray Love’ phase – cross paths in the middle of India. But this is not an exoticised,...
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Book Review: The Whole Picture
Art historian Alice Procter examines the knotty colonial roots that underpin our museums and galleries, and how we can seek out perspectives that are often buried or ignored. 29 April 2020 by Walter...
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Sydney Writers’ Festival launches podcast series
Prudence Upton With its 2020 festival an early cultural casualty of COVID-19 restrictions, Sydney Writers’ Festival has embarked upon a new podcast series reviving a small but potent snapshot of its...
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JM Coetzee becomes the subject of Twitter death hoaxer who has not read the room
Bert Nienhaus Nobel and Booker Prize-winning and Adelaide-based author JM Coetzee has become the target of a short-lived online death hoax. Seeking to make an oblique point about fact-checking in the...
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Book Review: Rodham
Curtis Sittenfield’s Sliding Doors-style hypothetical novel imagines a Hillary without the Clinton. 2 June 2020 by Kylie Maslen Books Issue 484 Share Facebook Twitter After saying no to Bill Clinton...
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Book Review: The Dictionary of Lost Words
A fictional account of the real-life events surrounding the creation of the first Oxford English Dictionary, this book is much more than a snapshot of linguistic history. 10 June 2020 by Amanda Pepe...
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Miles Franklin 2020 shortlist revealed
Miles Franklin 2020 shortlist: Carrie Tiffany, Tony Birch, Tara June Winch, John Hughes, Peggy Frew, Philip Salom With four previously shortlisted authors, the 2020 Miles Franklin pool is a familiar...
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Book Review: Rise and Shine
Adelaide author Patrick Allington returns with a dystopian and darkly satirical view of the future. 30 June 2020 by Kylie Maslen Books Issue 485 Share Facebook Twitter Rise and Shine imagines a world...
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Reading the city: Adelaide in six books
Fiction has the power to both capture and create ‘genius loci’. But what do novels set in and around Adelaide have to say about the spirit of the place? 13 July 2020 by Lana Guineay Books Share...
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Tara June Winch wins 2020 Miles Franklin Award for The Yield
Tara June Winch Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch has taken out the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her second novel, The Yield. 16 July 2020 by Walter Marsh Books Share Facebook Twitter Winch’s...
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Book Review: Smart Ovens for Lonely People
Perth author Elizabeth Tan’s second book is a tight, satirical short story collection full of memorably crafted characters. 23 July 2020 by Kylie Maslen Books Issue 485 Share Facebook Twitter This...
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Julia Gillard: ‘Getting put on a pedestal is a mug’s game’
Peter Brew-BevanFormer Prime Minister Julia Gillard When Julia Gillard began her short but intense prime ministership a decade ago, she was wary of letting the gendered treatment she received from the...
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‘Stories are hard to lock down’: How South Australian authors have been...
Affirm PressAdelaide Hills author Pip Williams’ latest novel The Dictionary of Lost Words was released in March Releasing the book you’ve spent years working on amidst a once-in-a-century global...
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Writers SA and The Adelaide Review announce a new national program of...
Sia DuffManal Younus and Writers SA director Jessica Alice A new year-long series of literary criticism spearheaded by Writers SA will provide important coverage to Australian authors affected by...
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Review: Connecting People, Place and Design
A new book from Angelique Edmonds rethinks urban design from the ground up using inspiration from the connectedness of people and place. 25 June 2020 by Stephen Muecke Books Form Issue 485 Share...
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Stories of pain and empathy
Kylie Maslen and Katerina Bryant After a year of COVID-reshuffled publication dates, two Adelaide authors – Katerina Bryant and Adelaide Review writer Kylie Maslen – find themselves in the unusual...
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Victoria Hannan on Kokomo, home and relationships: ‘I wanted to write a love...
Elize Strydom Kokomo, the first novel from Adelaide-born, Melbourne-based author Victoria Hannan, is one of the year’s most anticipated Australian debuts. 7 September 2020 by Kylie Maslen Books Share...
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Book Review: Jessie Tu’s A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing
In a cultural landscape where non-white voices are often expected to represent or speak for everyone who looks like them, Jessie Tu is simply telling one story. 22 September 2020 by Manal Younus Books...
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Book Extract: Misadventures in the Great Australian Debt Trap
Royce Kurmelovs’ Just Money: Misadventures in the Great Australian Debt Trap is out now A car accident in 2018 sent journalist, The Adelaide Review columnist and formerly uninsured motorist Royce...
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Book Review: Out of Copley Street
29 September 2020 by Royce Kurmelovs Books Share Facebook Twitter To talk about Geoff Goodfellow’s work with any insight, it is first necessary to put it into the proper context. Though the stories he...
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