by NRB | 24 Mar 2022 | Non-fiction, SFF |
Dangerous Visions and New Worlds explores how science fiction reflects the times in which it is written. In this lavishly illustrated collection of essays, Nette and McIntyre take a third loving look at the era of pulp fiction, following on from their Girl Gangs,...
by NRB | 17 Mar 2022 | Non-fiction |
Olivia Laing puts the case for art in times of crisis. 2021 – what a hell of a year. 2022 – not shaping up to be much better, yet. Where do we turn in times of strife? Well, in search of solace in the middle of Sydney’s long lockdown last year, I picked up...
by NRB | 15 Mar 2022 | Non-fiction |
The traditions of First Nations people around the globe reveal an intimate knowledge of the sky. We are part of the environment: the Sun, stars, rain, trees … even the noise of a bird and the wind that rustles through the trees. We are part of that.— Uncle Alo Tapim,...
by NRB | 8 Mar 2022 | Non-fiction |
Van Badham explores the internet’s alternative reality. This is a book about how internet conspiracies have grown to influence world politics, with dangerous real-life consequences. Badham traces the rise of internet channels from Japanese anime imageboards on...
by NRB | 3 Mar 2022 | Fiction, Non-fiction |
Mandy Beaumont’s novel and Amy Remeikis’s essay share powerful themes. Two books released in this nascent year recount women’s trauma and silencing by men, and their rage. In On Reckoning, an essay in Hachette’s ‘On’ series, Guardian journalist Amy...
by NRB | 1 Mar 2022 | Non-fiction |
Last month Amani Haydar’s powerful memoir won the non-fiction prize at the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. When Amani Haydar was five months pregnant with her first child, she received the unimaginable news that her mother, Salwa Haydar, had been...
by NRB | 22 Feb 2022 | Non-fiction |
Robyn Flemming’s memoir encompasses the adventure of being a global nomad within a story of addiction and healing. Over the past several decades, there have been countless books falling under the umbrella of ‘addiction memoir’, most of them focusing on alcohol...
by NRB | 8 Feb 2022 | Non-fiction |
Contemporary Irish poet Doireann Ni Ghriofa explores the life and work of eighteen-century poet Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill. Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s prose debut A Ghost in the Throat is both intimate and scholarly, ranging across multiple literary forms. Clothed...
by NRB | 1 Feb 2022 | Non-fiction |
As a single-volume history of the growth and development of Australian football, Australia’s Game has much to recommend it. When a book consists of 784 pages and 54 chapters, it’s a big book. But when it also contains 2517 endnotes and has a bibliography that includes...
by NRB | 20 Jan 2022 | Non-fiction |
In this survey from the ground up, Gabrielle Chan argues we all have a stake in the future of farming. Do you give a f*ck about farming? You’d perhaps be forgiven for a low-energy response to this brusque question. There’s a lot going on at the moment, and you might...
by NRB | 18 Jan 2022 | Non-fiction |
Billie Jean King was a champion on and off the tennis court, working for inclusion and civil rights as she made tennis history. Whenever Muhammad Ali met up with tennis legend Billie Jean King, he liked to say, ‘Billie Jeeeean, you’re the Queen.’ And ‘the Queen’ she...
by NRB | 24 Dec 2021 | Fiction, Non-fiction |
Which were the reviews you enjoyed the most this year? We’ve come up with the ten most popular reviews we’ve run this year, based on reader views. Inevitably it skews a little to reviews we ran earlier in the year (as there has been more time for readers to...