by NRB | 29 Jan 2018 | Giveaways |
To win all four of these books, simply email us at editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Tuesday 30 Jan 2018 with Summer #5 in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email. As we cannot afford to post giveaway bundles...
by NRB | 24 Oct 2013 | Fiction |
A puzzling and unsettling book of short stories that plays games with popular tropes surrounding Islam, the Middle East and the Western subject. Many of the stories in Transactions are named after a card in the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck. This is Ali Alizadeh’s...
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