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The best new books released in March, from Diana Reid, Colum McCann and Abdulrazak Gurnah

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Kate Evans |Claire Nichols |Nicola Heath |Declan Fry |Rosie Ward

Welcome to ABC Arts' monthly book column: a shortlist of new releases read and recommended by The Bookshelf's Kate Evans, The Book Show's Claire Nichols, ABC Arts' Nicola Heath and critics Declan Fry and Rosie Ofori Ward. All five read voraciously and their only guidelines for a recommendation here: make it a new release and make it something you think is great.
Geraldine Brooks, Han Kang, Garth Greenwell and more in the best new books out in February

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Kate Evans |Claire Nichols |Nicola Heath |Declan Fry |Rosie Ward

The pages of February's best books promise a lot: a queer love story full of incisive observation about life, a fiction-memoir blend about a body in love and in pain, and a character convinced they're being hunted by snipers. Two are the work of Nobel Prize winners while others are penned by debut authors. One writer learns her father might've been a secret spy, another just where grief can take you. ABC Arts reviewers offer up all this and more in reading recommendations from this month.
Think essays are dated? Read this book and think again. You’re welcome

Jan 15, 2025 | watoday.com.au | Declan Fry

By Declan Fry January 15, 2025 — 9.00pmSaveNormal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeESSAYSThe Position of Spoons and other intimaciesDeborah LevyHamish Hamilton, $45The diminished space criticism enjoys comes as no surprise. Freelance writing outliving the time and context of its creation? Out of touch. Published collections of what might (generously) be called hack work are rare.
Think essays are dated? Read this book and think again. You’re welcome

Jan 15, 2025 | smh.com.au | Declan Fry

By Declan Fry January 16, 2025 — 12.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. ESSAYSThe Position of Spoons and other intimaciesDeborah LevyHamish Hamilton, $45The diminished space criticism enjoys comes as no surprise. Freelance writing outliving the time and context of its creation? Out of touch. Published collections of what might (generously) be called hack work are rare.
The best new books released in 2024, as selected by avid readers and critics

Dec 13, 2024 | abc.net.au | Kate Evans |Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |Nicola Heath |Declan Fry |Rosie Ward

You know that uncomfortable feeling when you don't know what to read next? Well, get ready to take some notes because we're about to obliterate it. The Bookshelf's Kate Evans, The Book Show's Claire Nichols and Sarah L'Estrange, ABC Arts' Nicola Heath and critics Declan Fry and Rosie Ofori Ward offer up their best reads of 2024, leading us from grieving sisters to mismatched detectives, and from short stories based on real crimes to satire and dystopian futures.
The 25 best Australian books of 2024: Helen Garner, Tim Winton, Nam Le and more

Dec 12, 2024 | theguardian.com | Steph Harmon |Sian Cain |Susan Wyndham |James Bradley |Alyx Gorman |Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen | +9 more

Juice by Tim WintonFiction, Penguin, $49.99 (hardback)Juice opens as our unnamed narrator, surviving in a climate-ravaged Australia 200 years into the future, is captured by a hostile party and forced to tell his story to save his life – a sort of Scheherazade at the end of the world.
Helen Garner’s new book The Season celebrates the purity in observance

Dec 9, 2024 | smh.com.au | Declan Fry

By Declan Fry December 10, 2024 — 12.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. MEMOIRThe SeasonHelen GarnerText, $34.99Does Helen Garner profess expertise in the lore and arcana of Australian rules football? No. Does playing the sociologist interest her? Again, no. During football season in Melbourne, Garner watches her grandson Amby’s under-16s team. Her passion? The eros of sport.
Helen Garner’s new book The Season celebrates the purity in observance

Dec 9, 2024 | watoday.com.au | Declan Fry

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November's best new books, from Rosalie Ham's latest novel to a stranger-than-fiction memoir from Lech Blaine

Nov 29, 2024 | abc.net.au | Kate Evans |Sarah L'Estrange |Declan Fry |Katherine Smyrk

As summer holidays steadily approach, the pile of bedside books you'll need to see you through isn't going to grow itself. Take note of these new releases our group of critics — The Bookshelf's Kate Evans, The Book Show's Sarah L'Estrange, ABC Arts' Katherine Smyrk and writer Declan Fry — have tucked into this month.
War, data, and ecology after the end of the world’ by Michael Richardson

Sep 29, 2024 | australianbookreview.com.au | Declan Fry |Arts Highlights

In Vex Ashley’s film Machine Learning Experiments, a body – she, they, he, them, take your pick – is penetrated by a luminescent black tube. The body’s boundaries dissolve in the pleasure of becoming: animate/inanimate, human/non-human, interior and exterior, inorganic and inorganic.