
Summer reads
The books (and magazines) we're matching with the beach this holiday season.
MoreThe books (and magazines) we're matching with the beach this holiday season.
MoreFrom prosecuting war crimes to writing books for young adults.
MoreIn reading Alexander Weinstein’s Children of the New World Connor discovers that dystopic visions of the future no longer seem divorced from reality.
MoreMaxine Beneba Clarke’s The Hate Race is an enlightening examination of how bullying and bigotry are only separated by the passage of years.
MoreThere 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.
MoreThe 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.
MoreConnor traces the fading tie between cigarette and serious literature as he reviews Gregor Hens’ Nicotine.
MoreIn 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.
MoreAhead 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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