In his latest novel, James, Percival Everett teaches old dog Mark Twain a few new tricks.
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Read on for thoughts about books and reading and teaching and life. But mostly books.
Read on for thoughts about books and reading and teaching and life. But mostly books.
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In his latest novel, James, Percival Everett teaches old dog Mark Twain a few new tricks.
This moment when, for a tiny space in time, Australia’s history crossed paths with the much bigger story happening in south-eastern Europe has been little explored in fiction, but Danielle Binks’s warm and brilliant middle grade debut, The Year the Maps Changed, captures it all through the eyes of the fierce and immediately endearing Winifred – or Fred, to her dad.
Heading to SWF? You should definitely check out The Lost Man, The Fragments, The Scholar and The Life to Come before you do.
A review of Claire Adam’s spare and unsettling debut, Golden Child.
Short stories of horror and hope set in a world that too closely resembles our own.
Helen Garner’s modern classic Monkey Grip gets a makeover in this fresh new re-release from Text Publishing. But the text remains its original, startling self.
A review of Janet Lee’s debut work of historical fiction, The Killing of Louisa.
A review of Rain Birds, by Harriet McKnight.
