Loving
Lieben (‘Loving’)is the new book by Emilia Roig which clearly differentiates itself from both of its predecessor.
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How we are translated
Jessica Gaitán Johannesson’s debut novel is thought-provoking in its approach to language and culture and offers up a wonderful cast of characters.
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Aquariums
Aquariums – sitting perfectly at the intersection between a family chronicle and a pandemic tale, interwoven with the disastrous progression of the climate catastrophe – offers both indecisive and openminded readers alike a bridge between historical fiction and science fiction.
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Bad Cree
A life-sucking horror haunts dreams of female kinship and the prairies in a suspenseful First Nations novel from Canada.
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Latitudes of Longing
When a book can make you look up at the sky once in a while, pause, draw in your breath, and gaze at the rustling leaves of the tree outside your window, what does it mean? That it is not gripping enough, or rather I believe that it wants everything around you to grip you completely.
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Praiseworthy
Wright did not create a story that is simply about the Aboriginal town of Praiseworthy in Northern Australia, she created a wholly Indigenous novel.
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Life in the City of Dirty Water
Clayton Thomas-Müller’s Life in the City of Dirty Water, A Memoir of Healing is a must read, especially for people interested in climate justice, but it can also help non-Indigenous people to understand the struggles of Indigenous communities, particularly the ones in urban areas in North America.
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The Sentence
The recent novel by US-American writer Louise Erdrich centres on an Ojibwe woman called Tookie, grappling with her own past in the midst of the pandemic, protests and upheaval in Minneapolis.
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Poūkahangatus
Tayi Tibble’s Poūkahangatus is a vivid, often playful examination of her own family history, becoming an adult and the tensions that exist in her lived experience as a young Māori.
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Antichristie
I rarely voluntarily choose to read stories about time travel, even though when done well they not only create narrative potential, but also orchestrate and scrutinize connections between the past and present. And this is exactly what Sanyal accomplishes with Antichristie.
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