Reviews of fiction

Drift
by Manuel Luis-Martinez
review by John Mansfield

Everything is Illuminated
by Jonathon Safran-Foer
review by John Mansfield

Secret Lives: 34 Modern Australian Short Stories / The Best Australian Stories
edited by Barry Oakley and Peter Craven
review by Shawn Low

Seven Types of Ambiguity
by Elliot Perlman
review by Leah Muddle

You Are Not a Stranger
by Adam Haslett
review by Leah Muddle

£6.99
by Frédéric Beigbeder
review by John Mansfield

 

Reviews of non-fiction

The Art of Travel
by Alain De Botton
review by Alex Scott

A Death in Brazil
by Peter Robb
review by John Mansfield

The Essential Difference: men, women and the extreme male brain
by Simon Baron-Cohen
review by John Mansfield

Evil in Modern Thought: an alternative history of philosophy
by Susan Neiman
review by Sampson Powell

Made in England: Australia's British Inheritance (Quarterly Essay #12)
by David Malouf
review by Leah Muddle

Memo for a Saner World
by Bob Brown
review by Anonymous Radish

 

Reviews of poetry

Love is the New Hate
by Sean Whelan
review by John Mansfield

Interview with Sean Whelan

 

Somewhere between fiction and fact

Hollywood Divorces
by Jackie Collins
review by John Mansfield

Political Anecdotes
by Mungo McCallum
review by Flavia Alcatraz

Salam Pax: The Baghdad Blog
by Anon
review by Shawn Low