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Book review: Hooked
A A A By - Mar 18, 2026 12:46 pm AEDT Author: Asako Yuzuki Publisher: Harper Collins As they say, there are books you finish and books that finish you. After a month of reading Asako Yuzuki, I am at an end. The late February rains pummel down. Summer is over. The static of the downpour vibrates with my vacant soul. I am now inured to the most insipid prose I have ever read. What’s the point anymore?
Citizens’ Assemblies: reclaiming the normative power of law
By - Nov 12, 2025 9:00 am AEDT In a polarised world, where many feel increasingly removed from government decision making, does deliberative democracy offer a way to restore our faith in democratic processes? It’s mid-2016 in Adelaide. It’s been raining for days. Wind relentlessly buffets the city. 52 random people are picking their way around a swarm of raincoated protestors and into a room brimming with journalists. Cameras and boom mics are thrust in their faces.
Book review: Yilkari: A desert suite
A A A By - Aug 13, 2025 9:00 am AEST Author: Nicolas Rothwell and Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson Publisher: Text Publishing Nicolas Rothwell is back at the fiction game with a new novel, Yilkari: A desert suite, this time co-authored with his wife, Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson. He is a decorated, fascinating figure of Australian literature, and she is a Luritja-Pintupi artist, First Nations polyglot, and former politician. Individually, they have led remarkable lives.
Book review: Twist
A A A By - Apr 24, 2025 12:27 pm AEST Title: Twist Author: Colum McCann Publisher: Bloomsbury “We are all shards in the smash-up. Our lives, even the unruptured ones, bounce around on the sea floor. For a while we might brush tenderly against one another, but eventually, and inevitably, we collide and splinter.” So begins Colum McCann’s Twist: an unwieldy novel exploring connection, repair and sabotage. It aptly foreshadows the oncoming story.
Book review - The First Friend
What makes psychopathic, murderous despots tick? That archetype – full of amusing insecurities and absurdities but apathetically bent on domination – survives and thrives today, whether amongst the political elite, everyday workplaces or even families. What can we do to resist them without becoming like them? Armed with Aussie wit, Malcolm Knox explores these questions and satirises the bullies in The First Friend, his seventh novel.
At Quark’s Bar
Hi! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed, follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Telegram, and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Thanks for visiting! …“You know, you’re a real snoutfair?”’s all I said to her—spoken, mind you, as a firm believer in urbane wit, you know, just oozing eutrapelia?
A Walk on the Dark Side
Hi! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed, follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Telegram, and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Thanks for visiting! I’m not sure whether I write to drink or drink to write. All I know is they go together like—how does the song put it? “Love and marriage, they go together like a horse and carriage?” That’ll do, to position my writing and drinking. One before, one after—with “one” left unspecified. How’s that, Doctor?…What do I think?
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