Books
The Review’s Review: Back to the Essence
Three-year-old girl riding an Arabian horse. Miragexv at English Wikipedia, Public...
One Bright Morning, by Wendy Scarfe
Just scraping into the last day of Bill’s week focussing on Australian Women Writers...
The Penguin Best Australian Short Stories, edited by Mary...
Having stumbled on this collection of 30 short stories in an OpShop, I decided to...
Blood in the Rain, by Margaret Barbalet
When Bill from The Australian Legend posted his list of women writers that he’s...
The “Scream” franchise adds another self-referential sequel
The fifth film in the “Scream” series has a counter-intuitive title: “Scream”. That...
The Experts, by W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963)
Forgive this scanty offering, but I would really like to share this Story of the...
Beasts of a Little Land, by Juhea Kim
Beasts of a Little Land is the debut novel of Korean-American author Juhea Kim,...
Orpheus Lost, by Janet Turner Hospital
Reviews From the Archive An occasional series, retrieving unpublished reviews from...
Jessamine Chan’s gripping debut novel sends up modern parenting
The School for Good Mothers. By Jessamine Chan. Simon & Schuster; 336 pages; $27....
Dominant languages can spread even without coercion
NEVER THINK the world is in decline. A recent book, “Speak Not” by James Griffiths,...
The Visit, by Amy Witting
According to Wikipedia , the writing career of Amy Witting, A.M. (1918-2001) always...
It was hard for any viewer to look away from Sidney Poitier
HE SHOWED THE world that black actors could be Hollywood heroes. In films such as...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association does penance for...
The 79th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony was held in the Beverly Hilton on January...
Meet the LARB China Channel Team, Part 3 — A Q&A with Commissioning...
This is the third in a series BLARB will be running of interviews with some of the...
