Nick Curnow
Nick Curnow is from Readings Carlton
Review — 3 Mar 2023
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
When I’m looking for something to read, I usually start lurking in nonfiction; and more often than not, I find myself wandering through the history section looking for my next…
Review — 31 Aug 2022
The Last Colony by Philippe Sands
To begin at the end: the poet and politician Aimé Césaire says, ‘a civilisation that plays fast and loose with its principles is a dying civilisation.’ Césaire’s words come at…
Review — 28 Jul 2022
August in Kabul by Andrew Quilty
August of 2021 was a miserable month; maybe the worst one that I had ever had. The last and bleakest of Victoria’s lockdowns had started. Every bitter night on the…
Review — 30 May 2022
What Goes Unsaid: A Memoir of Fathers Who Never Were by Emiliano Monge & Frank Wynne (trans.)
One night in 1958, Carlos Monge McKey dies in an accident at his workplace, leaving his wife and children behind. Four years later, with a different face, he returns.This incident…
