For the Lost: a review of “Beautiful Revolutionary”
Are some people more susceptible to joining a cult than others? To answer this, ‘Beautiful Revolutionary’ shifts the narrative lens onto the members of Peoples Temple and not their leader.
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Magic and Society: Zubrzycki’s Empire of Enchantment
Zubrzycki’s book reveals an unknown side to Indian magic. Explore the history of magic in India, and how it has mirrored the culture.
The Children’s Book: Syrian children try expression through art
The drawings of children in Home reveal a depth of experience and imagination, arising from the midst of violence and conflict.
Poems from the edge of the Indian Ocean
Pettitt-Schipp’s debut book of poetry evokes the traumatic lives of refugees, the grandeur of nature and the importance of family.
Taking the Road Less Travelled: a review of A Free Flame
A Free Flame: Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century Ann-Marie Priest When a voice speaks from a burning bush, you do what it says. So I imagine, anyway – I’ve never heard a voice in a burning bush. Ruth Park probably never did either, but it was her way of conveying that […]
Workers Remembered: A review of The Bridge
On the day I see The Bridge, at the Substation in Newport, there’s a State election in Victoria. I hadn’t planned it that way, but by election day, I’m glad to be seeing some theatre with its roots in the social realist Melbourne Workers Theatre, a (now-defunct) company that formed in Melbourne in 1987 out […]
Understanding nature: a review of Saras Dewi’s Ecophenomenology
Saras Dewi explores the disequilibrium between human and nature in her book Ecophenomenology: Unravelling the Disequilibrium of Human Relations with Nature.
Giving voice to the marginalised: a review of Serving in Silence?
Those who served this country speak out against discrimination in this revealing book and ensure that we know the fight is far from over.
The Cleaners: protection or censorship?
Who has the right to censor our not-so-private lives? Hans Block and Moritz Riesewick explore censorship and trauma in this disturbing documentary.
Systems of Oppression: a review of No Friend But the Mountains
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison Behrouz Boochani, Omid Tofighian Picador Australia, 2018 “Is courage the opposite of fear?” asks Behrouz Boochani in his monumental, impossible new work, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison (Picador, 2018). “Or is courage a virtue that emerges out of the essence of […]
The boy in the striped prison uniform: a review of Capharnaüm
In one of the opening scenes of Capharnaüm (2018), a boy in a striped prison uniform enters a crowded courtroom. Zain (Zain al-Rafeea) is already a celebrity of sorts, a child who brings a lawsuit against his own parents with the encouragement of a current affairs TV show. He has no birth certificate and no […]
A search for justice and truth: a review of Waiting for Elijah
Kate Wild explores the horrific and questionable events of one day in Armidale, New South Wales.