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December 18, 2017
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Summer reads

The books (and magazines) we're matching with the beach this holiday season.

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February 28, 2017
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Reading List: Seeing the future

In reading Alexander Weinstein’s Children of the New World Connor discovers that dystopic visions of the future no longer seem divorced from reality.

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January 2, 2017
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Reading List: Memories of hate

Maxine Beneba Clarke’s The Hate Race is an enlightening examination of how bullying and bigotry are only separated by the passage of years.

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December 9, 2016
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Reading list: Gift List

There are three things guaranteed to be winners under the CityMag Christmas tree - books, chocolate and Campari. Here's a head start on the first option.

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September 19, 2016
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Reading list: Classics additions

The true value of a good bookstore is the bookseller. They curate every shelf – across true crime, historical fiction, autobiography and everything in between – and can offer astute advice on what should and shouldn’t be added to the towering pile of books waiting next to your bed.

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June 14, 2016
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Reading List Nicotine

Literary withdrawals

Connor traces the fading tie between cigarette and serious literature as he reviews Gregor Hens’ Nicotine.

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December 9, 2015
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Reading List: The bigger picture

In the search for meaning and understanding amid the machinations of Australian politics, Connor argues something a little more in-depth than the news cycle but a little shy of an epic is needed – and he finds it in the Quarterly Essay.

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February 27, 2015
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Reading List: Quiet Thrills

Ahead of appearances in the coming week by John Darnielle and Roxane Gay at Adelaide Writers’ Week, Connor takes on their latest respective works and finds two very different stories that share a penchant for layered meaning.

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