Tara Kaye Judah
Tara Kaye Judah is a former Readings St Kilda bookseller
Review — 27 Jan 2015
Fury: Women Write About Sex, Power and Violence edited by Samantha Trenoweth
It’s too easy to read statistics on violence against women and do nothing. The stats are alarming, but they rarely instigate change. Giving a voice to what’s being called a…
Blog post — 1 Oct 2014
Meet the bookseller with Tara Kaye Judah
We chat with Tara Kaye Judah about her fondness for feminist film theory and capitalist critique, and why she loves the cover of David Vann’s Goat Mountain.
Why do…
Review — 28 Jan 2014
Blue Jasmine
Woody Allen hits another home run with this funny, startling reimagining of Tennessee Williams’ seminal stage play A Streetcar Named Desire. Positing the titular Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) in the…
Review — 29 Jan 2014
The Undertaking by Audrey Magee
On the Eastern Front in 1941, Peter Faber, a German soldier, is fighting for his country. In a not yet divided Berlin, Katharina Spinell is waiting for a conflict she…
Review — 18 Nov 2013
Actors Anonymous by James Franco
Mark Twain said, ‘Write what you know,’ and James Franco knows acting. But he has also directed two feature films this year (Interior. Leather Bar. and As I Lay…
Review — 24 Oct 2013
Down in the City by Elizabeth Harrower
Far from the Newcastle shores of her youth, in 1950s London, Elizabeth Harrower penned her first novel, Down in the City. Staged in an ordinary apartment block in Sydney’s…