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LUKE RUTLEDGE A Man and His Pride. Reviewed by Michael Jongen

LUKE RUTLEDGE A Man and His Pride. Reviewed by Michael Jongen

by NRB | 6 Jul 2023 | Fiction | 0 comments

Luke Rutledge’s debut novel is both a social comedy and a moving story of coming out. Luke Rutledge has written a delightful comedy of manners set against the backdrop of the 2017 marriage equality plebiscite. It opens at a cracking pace, introducing us to 26-year-old...
MICHELLE ARROW The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia. Reviewed by Kathy Gollan

MICHELLE ARROW The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia. Reviewed by Kathy Gollan

by NRB | 16 Apr 2019 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

The 1970s in Australia was more than flared jeans and satin pantsuits: in this overview Michelle Arrow charts the decade’s transformation of the social and political landscape. The seventies was a decade of upheavals in political, economic and industrial life....

DENNIS ALTMAN The End of the Homosexual? Reviewed by Walter Mason

by NRB | 27 Aug 2013 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

In an age dominated by the idea of gay marriage, one of the founding fathers of homosexual liberation asks where Queer culture has gone.    Many people have forecast the end of gay culture in recent years. Indeed, even the very word ‘gay’ seems to have...

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