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The Trials of Portnoy
by Patrick Mullins

Reviewed by
Chris Dite, Jun 2020

In 1969 Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint – a book so widely accepted now that it is deemed boring – was banned in Australia. Undercover police raided bookstores, charged booksellers and seized all the copies they could find of this grotesque…

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What I Loved: Because a White Man’ll Never Do it by Kevin Gilbert

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