Ella Pilson
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Book review: Elegy, Southwest, Madeleine Watts
A road trip that meanders around love and loss.

Book review: The Best Australian Science Writing 2024, Jackson Ryan and Carl Smith (editors)
Now in its 14th iterative, the anthology continues to bring forth a new array of science writing.

Book review: The Infant Vine, Isabella G Mead
This debut collection of poetry plays with the intersection between motherhood and the natural world.

Book review: If You Go, Alice Robinson
The relationships between mothers and children are explored in a futuristic setting.

Book review: The Next Big Thing, James Colley
Easy beach read romcom is quintessentially Australian in flavour.

Book review: Clarke, Holly Throsby
A work of crime fiction that spends as much time developing its characters as it does with progressing the plot.

Performance review: SWAMP
Australian wildlife as played out in dark and violent puppetry.

Book review: How Many More Women?, Jennifer Robinson and Keina YoshidaĀ
An examination of the sexual violence against women and the legal system that inhibits and denies justice.

Theatre review: Nu-Disco!
A one-woman show that runs through a host of contemporary issues while lost in the thralls of a nightclub.

Theatre review: Ethel Mermaid: Songs in the Key of Sea
An amazing splash of talent at Melbourne Fringe Festival.