Books & Poetry
Book review: Silence is my Habitat

In a deeply thoughtful, personal and cultural account of being deaf – and of being a deaf writer – Jessica White’s Silence is my Habitat adds to the shelves yet another impressive work in the field of deafness and disability, while making room for a new one: the ecobiographical essay.

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Books & Poetry
The soft and quiet power of Australian literature needs public champions

Following the abrupt closure of Australian literary journal Meanjin after 85 years, Splinter journal editor Farrin Foster reflects on how literature’s quiet power makes it one of our least-valued art forms.

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Books & Poetry
Book review: The Bolthole

Author Peter Papathanasiou embraces Kangaroo Island for the latest in his George Manolis detective series, where the machinations of the small community machinations are as compelling as the murder mystery.

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