Book review: Styled
Sally Mackinnon’s Styled explores body image, fashion advice, and the journey toward more intentional, confident personal style.
By Anna Fischer - 4 min readSally Mackinnon’s Styled explores body image, fashion advice, and the journey toward more intentional, confident personal style.
By Anna Fischer - 4 min readA bleak, emotionally draining novel that explores life’s trivial anxieties with humorless precision—reading it feels like enduring depression on the page.
By Reuben Fourt-Wells - 3 min readHeart Lamp, the first Kannada-language winner of the International Booker Prize, is a powerful collection of stories by Banu Mushtaq, exploring women’s lives under patriarchy…
By Caroline Wagner - 3 min readWho is the most reliable teller of your story and history? Is it you, those who’ve loved and protected you, or those who’ve had to…
By Amy Dale - 2 min readSet to be released in Australia just days before the anniversary of the 2020 US election, this is best enjoyed as a companion read with…
By Brian Dale - 2 min readIn a world of climate destruction, rising inequality and a pervading millennial malaise, why, two young women ponder, do humans remain “so stupid about each-other?”
By Amy Dale - 2 min readCriminal cases are adversarial. Prosecutors and defence pushing their views at the expense of the other.
By Brian Dale - 2 min readHailed in its release promotional material as “The Devil Wears Prada meets Get Out”, this at times astonishing and thoroughly original debut is really nothing…
By Amy Dale - 2 min readLove & Virtue chronicles the tense and dynamic ‘friendship’ between Michaela and Eve, two bold and intelligent young women during their time at a university…
By Noah Vaz - 2 min readEccentric. Genius. Mad. Preeminent jurist. President at the birth of the United Nations. NSW MP. Author. Federal MP and Minister. Attorney-General. Erratic Opposition Leader. Royal…
By Brian Dale - 2 min readPlenty of us have been taking on DIY projects during COVID-19 lockdowns. Personal self-improvement might be one you haven’t checked off your list yet.
By Kate Allman - 2 min read