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A dreamscape of transcendental potential: Rhett Davis’ Arborescence is at once terrifying and bewitching

A dreamscape of transcendental potential: Rhett Davis’ Arborescence is at once terrifying and bewitching

In his thoughtful new novel about people turning into trees, Rhett Davis puts postmodernism and myth through the figurative woodchipper.

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‘Ambitious’ or ‘pretentious’? The contested legacy of Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Richard Flanagan’s novel is about to hit screens. How do its depictions of heroism and valour land in 2025? And were the raves right – or the pans?

11.04.2025 10

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‘A final warning from God’: Lech Blaine’s memoir pits an average Australian family against an avenging archangel

They say everyone has a book inside them. Some people are unfortunate enough to have more than one. Lech Blaine’s first memoir, the acclaimed Car...

08.11.2024 3

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Back in the USSR? Malcolm Knox’s dark comedy leans into the ridiculous

Fans of Soviet history and/or the 2017 comedy film, The Death of Stalin, will remember Levrentiy Pavlovich Beria as the ruthless would-be successor...

05.09.2024 2

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Luke Johnson