Dion Kagan

Sep 30, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Dion Kagan |Tim Winton |Cate Kennedy |Daniel James

The English novelist’s latest dark masterpiece begins with the talented, queer, working-class protagonist invited to his sponsors’ country estate Dave Win, the half-Burmese, working-class protagonist of this delicate new novel by Alan Hollinghurst, starts out in the 1960s as one of very few non-white students at Bampton, a boys’ boarding school in south-east England.

Jul 13, 2023 | meanjin.com.au | Dion Kagan

Reviewed: Why We Are Here, Briohny Doyle, Penguin Random HouseIn Briohny Doyle’s fourth book, a writer called BB has lost both her partner and father in close succession, and, in the aftermath of their deaths, experiences the first wave of pandemic lockdowns.