Books

Love, Loosha

All photographs courtesy of Chip Livingston. In 1994, the internationally ac...

The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted, by Robert Hillman

The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted is an uplifting novel that raises difficul...

Twilight Zone Dispatch: The Last Stop and the Book o...

A screening of “A Stop at Willoughby” at the Last Stop Willoughby Festival. C...

Mortal Divide, by George Alexander

Winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Award in 1999, George Alexander’s Mortal...

Cooking with Taeko Kōno

The Japanese writer Taeko Kōno is a maestro of transgressive desire whose sto...

Unconditional Death Is a Good Title

Yellow tree, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC0 4.0. vladimir nabokov...

Best of Friends, by Kamila Shamsie

I’ve had a mixed experience with Kamila Shamsie’s novels: Home Fire which won...

Vivian Gornick Will Receive Our 2023 Hadada Award

Vivian Gornick. Photograph by Mitchell Bach. Courtesy of Farrar, Straus and G...

Attica Prison Diary

Enrance of the Attica Correctional Facility, 2007. Photo by Jayu, CC BY-SA 2....

The National Picture, by Stephen Scheding

Cultural warning: this review contains references to 19th century colonisatio...

Ghost Species, by James Bradley

James Bradley OAM is a novelist, essayist, anthologist and critic.  I was pro...

Find My Friends

My favorite app is Find My Friends. If you do not know what this is, it’s a...

Re-Covered: Angelica and Henrietta Garnett

Henrietta Garnett was forty-one when her first and last novel, Family Skelet...

The Ritz of the Bayou: Nancy Lemann’s Shabby-Genteel

New Orleans, 1958. Licensed under CC0 4.0. In our new Fall issue, no. 241, we...

The Lion in Love, by Kevin Brophy

Kevin Brophy AO is a poet, novelist, essayist, editor and book reviewer with...

Desolation Journal

Jack Kerouac’s notebook. Image courtesy of the Jack Kerouac Estate and Charle...