James Antoniou

Jun 23, 2024 | limelight-arts.com.au | Jansson J. Antmann |Jill Brown |James Antoniou |Jo Litson

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Mar 8, 2024 | smh.com.au | James Antoniou

FICTIONCahokia Jazz Francis SpuffordFaber & Faber, $34.99 If historical novels are very often judged by their accuracy, and fantasy novels by their powers of imagination, alternate history novels are the strange middle ground where both are demanded in equal measure. Some of the best authors in the sub-genre, from Michael Chabon to Philip K. Dick, also bring to it a speculative intelligence that, like dystopian and science fiction, poses pressing political questions in fresh ways.

Dec 29, 2023 | smh.com.au | James Antoniou

FICTION So Close to Home Mick Cummins Affirm Press, $34.99 Literature centred on opiate addiction has a long history. Whether as memoir (Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Kate Holden's In My Skin), or fictionalised from experience (William S. Burroughs' self-mythologising Junkie), it is often drawn from life.

Dec 29, 2023 | brisbanetimes.com.au | James Antoniou

By James Antoniou December 29, 2023 — 3.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. FICTIONSo Close to Home Mick Cummins Affirm Press, $34.99Literature centred on opiate addiction has a long history. Whether as memoir (Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Kate Holden’s In My Skin), or fictionalised from experience (William S. Burroughs’ self-mythologising Junkie), it is often drawn from life.

Oct 26, 2023 | australianbookreview.com.au | James Antoniou

As one of Britain’s most indefatigable and widely read left-wing columnists, Polly Toynbee has weathered the ire of the right for over fifty years. In fact, controversy has never seemed to bother her. She has never felt the need to justify herself, and every chant of ‘champagne socialist’ has seemed only to deepen her resolve to champion causes of the disadvantaged.