Tristen Brudy
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Review — 28 Jun 2022
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
It is always a thrill opening a new book by Ottessa Moshfegh. You never know what you’re going to get. The only certainty is that it’ll be unlike anything else…
Review — 30 May 2022
Either/Or by Elif Batuman
Full disclosure: Elif Batuman’s debut novel, The Idiot, is in my top five favourite books of all time. It takes place in 1995 and follows Selin, a Turkish American…
Review — 3 Apr 2022
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
This is it. The one we’ve all been waiting for. Jennifer Egan’s follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning, genre-bending A Visit from the Goon Squad. Taking the same patchwork form…
Review — 28 Mar 2022
True Friends by Patti Miller
‘I’ve been wondering why, compared to romantic love, the love of friends is not much written about.’ Seeking to redress this balance, albeit on a minor scale, Patti Miller sets…
Review — 28 Jun 2020
Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
The person who believes in you is the most dangerous person you know. The person who believes in you can unbuild you in an instant.
Nell Barber is not having…
Review — 28 Apr 2022
Ruth and Pen by Emilie Pine
There isn’t much to physically connect Ruth and Pen beyond a few chance encounters that unfold one pivotal October day as they go about their lives in Dublin (much like…
Review — 6 Sep 2020
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
I’m still a child, only as tall as my father’s shotgun.
So begins Betty’s story. Betty is a fictionalised account of the author’s own mother as she comes of age…
Review — 27 Jan 2022
Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang
Joan is okay. At least as far as she is concerned. She’s in her thirties, with a successful career as an ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital…
Review — 28 Feb 2022
Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood needs no introduction. But here’s one anyway. Born in Ottawa, Canada in 1939, Atwood has published more than 50 works of fiction, poetry, critical essays, works of nonfiction…
Review — 27 Jan 2022
Making Australian History by Anna Clark
It is generally proposed that history is written by the victors. Anna Clark, however, may argue that it is written by historians – which makes it no less biased. Australian…
