Book Reviews

Polly Barton's Porn: An Oral History assembles a series of intimate interviews to trace the history and sociology of pornography Read more »

A metatextual, experimental novel about the life and legend of Italian-American boxer Joe Grim, Michael Winkler's Grimmish is a paean to pain in all its forms Read more »

Anna Funder's Wifedom explores the woman behind George Orwell's life and works, his wife Eileen O’Shaughnessy, offering a lucid interrogation of misogyny and what it means to write ‘truth’ Read more »

K Patrick's runaway hit Mrs S explores gender and queerness during a simmering summer at an all-girls boarding school Read more »

Sophie Chauhan's Curious Affinities is a lyrical exploration of the personal and political residues of intimacy, and what happens when the borders of things meet Read more »

In a small Aboriginal town called Praiseworthy, locals confront the dust cloud of their ancestors and looming climate collapse in Alexis Wright's extraordinary experimental novel Read more »