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Book review: The Furies, Mandy Beaumont
A brutal feminist reckoning marks this debut novel.
Book review: Devotion, Hannah Kent
Hannah Kent’s stunning third book is a queer love story that transcends time and space.
Ballet review: The Sleeping Beauty, West Australian Ballet
Elite visual storytelling thrills in the form of dance.
Book review: Scary Monsters, Michelle de Kretser
Scary Monsters explores alienation with subtlety, insight and ambiguity.
Book review: Muddy People, Sara El Sayed, Black Inc
An intricate memoir that traverses the muddy divides between child and adult, tradition and change, self and other and identity…
Exhibitions review: Innovation and the Mandurah 9x5 Art Prize, WA
Deborah Zibah’s solo exhibition of large scale abstract art is perfectly balanced by the community-compiled collection of 9x5 boards.
Book review: She is Haunted, Paige Clark, Allen & Unwin
A bitingly clever short story collection about life, loss, relationships, and identity.
Theatre review: Picnic at Hanging Rock, Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, WA
An iconic gothic mystery that retains – and improves upon – the flavour of its predecessors.
Book review: The Airways by Jennifer Mills, Pan Macmillan
A ghost story about boundaries, contamination, and the porous corporeality of existence.
Book review: Dissolve by Nikki Gemmell, Hachette
An intoxicating exploration of erasure, heartbreak, and self determination.