Reimagining narratives that centre whiteness
This seems to be turning into a theme, so, previously on race and fiction: Writing Race, How to write yourself …
Tag Archives: reviews/analyses
‘One still ought to show the good manners to act ashamed’
I recently read The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. If you’re up for another work on racism and colonialism from …
Review: Bridesmaids
Bridesmaids (2011) has been billed as an important feminist step forward in Hollywood comedies, as more of the same, as …
Winners & Losers has definitely lost
In my last post on new Australian drama Winners & Losers, I mentioned that I wanted to write a post …
Winners & Losers winning and losing
There’s a new show on Channel 7, an Australian production, called Winners & Losers. It’s about high school friends were …
Review: Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room
Recently, I rather excitedly went to see the Sydney Theatre Company production of In the Next Room, or the vibrator …
Review: Lasting Treasures by Julie Ellis
This piece contains lots of spoilers. I wanted to love this book, I really did. I have enjoyed the couple …
Webcomics Wednesday: Riot Nrrd
Riot Nrrd by JR. This is the greatest comic ever. It references Octavia Butler, Ursula Le Guin and Margaret Atwood …
Book Review: Wicked by Gregory Maguire
This post is about the book version of Wicked, not the musical (they’re quite dissimilar). There’s one minor spoiler for …
Book Review: Deadly, Unna? by Phillip Gwynne
A pretty non-spoilery review! Deadly, Unna? was Phillip Gwynne’s first novel, published in 1998. It’s the story of a small …
Small World by David Lodge
I mentioned the other day that I was reading Small World by David Lodge: It’s a rather delicious book, apparently …
Film Review: The Music In Me
Full disclosure: I know the film’s producer, Anne Kenyon, and she lent me a copy of the DVD after we …
Thinking about Helen in the Aenid
Jet Silver requested book reviews, and I’m going to oblige with a week of book reviews/analyses, with a bonus film! …
Film Review: Beyond Words
Beyond Words is an Australian short thriller directed by Armand De Saint-Salvy, one of 16 finalists for Tropfest 2009. (Tropfest …
Talking down disability while talking down to young people
Contains spoilers for A Darkling Plain, so be warned! I’ve just finished up Philip Reeve’s Hungry Cities books. They’re really …
