Smolinschi Dennis/Unsplash July 16, 2023 ‘What does journey even mean?’: Emily Perkins interrogates our obsession with wellbeing Jane Turner Goldsmith, University of Adelaide Emily Perkins’ ‘intoxicating’ new novel unfolds in the wake of a husband’s corruption scandal – which threatens his wife’s carefully curated lifestyle brand and forces her to question everything.
Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula (1931). Wikimedia Commons. March 1, 2023 Ambition, corruption and guerilla gardening: Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood is a horror story for our time Julian Novitz, Swinburne University of Technology Birnam Wood is a novel of depth and complexity, but its depiction of an unscrupulous billionaire is also refreshingly unsubtle.
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