by NRB | 12 Sep 2023 | Fiction |
Part literary romance, part cultural odyssey, Doll’s Eye is a lively challenge to the tropes of contemporary Australian Holocaust fiction. Author, physician, Jew, lover of science, nature and language: these bright strands of Leah Kaminsky’s real-life identity...
by NRB | 24 Jun 2019 | Giveaways |
This week’s giveaway features two works of historical fiction: Leah Kaminsky’s The Hollow Bones and Matthew Hooton’s Typhoon Kingdom. To go in the draw to win both books, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by midnight Monday 24...
by NRB | 13 Jun 2019 | Fiction |
Leah Kaminsky’s second novel explores science, Nazi ideology, and the dangerous seduction of going with the flow. The bones in Leah Kaminsky’s new novel, The Hollow Bones are bird bones: hollow and light, made for flying. The image of birds in flight and birds...
by NRB | 2 Aug 2016 | Non-fiction |
Leah Kaminsky invites us to ask questions about our own attitudes and behaviours in the face of death, with the promise of a more fully lived life. To be a doctor terrified of death, writes Kaminsky, is like being a pizza chef terrified of dough. This is the problem...
by NRB | 3 Sep 2015 | Fiction |
This debut novel of traumas past and present is both compelling and surprising. Leah Kaminsky’s The Waiting Room starts with a heavily pregnant woman picking through shattered bodies in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. In the mess there are the unseeing eyes of...
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