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I examine why the Australian anti-mosque movement are courting the LGBT community.

The cult novel is a funny thing. ‘Cult’ doesn’t necessarily collapse neatly down to ‘divisive’ (if that were the case, Fifty Shades of Grey and its progenitor Twilight would surely be works of cult fiction), nor can it simply be reduced to ‘underrated’ (Hunter S. Thompson is, by almost any yardstick, a cult writer, yet…

This review was originally published over at Annabel Smith’s blog – she runs a series in which bookish types are asked to share their all-time favourite work of fiction and describe what it means to them.  I’ve tried to get friends reading Erlend Loe’s Naïve. Super for years, with relatively little success. It’s one of those books that’s virtually…

A few months ago, I was at a panel in which several Australian writers spoke about how the short story was a form in need of preservation. It’s kind of funny that particular creative forms are implicitly recognised as endangered. After all, you don’t hear many divas worrying about the continued existence of the three-minute…

Reviewed: Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan  A Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchins  Microserfs by Douglas Coupland  Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple   How we see that past is so often determined by how we fictionalised it: is it possible to even begin to understand Victorian England without reference…