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Paradais
by Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes (trans.)

Reviewed by
Stella Charls, Mar 2022

With her award- winning English- language debut Hurricane Season, Mexican journalist and novelist Fernanda Melchor demonstrated her remarkable ability to grapple with violence on the page. In this dazzling, brutal novel about femicide, Melchor’s visceral prose told the story…

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Books
15 Dec 2016

Five books I’m still thinking about (months after reading them)

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Film & TV
7 Jul 2016

A quick guide to MIFF 2016

Here’s a quick ‘at-a-glance’ guide to this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). You can see the full program here. We’ve shared our top picks for book lovers, compiled a list of family-friendly films, and you can also find out…

Books
23 Feb 2016

10 must-read authors from Adelaide Writers’ Week

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Books
13 Dec 2015

The most interesting young women I met this year (in books)

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Film & TV
19 Nov 2015

The best DVDs of 2015

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News
30 Jun 2015

Introducing our event program for July

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4 May 2015

Introducing our event program for May

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Introducing our event program for April

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