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Hello mystery fans! I really love the Netflix crime show
Dead To Me, starring Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini, and, without giving any spoilers, the second season really feels like it dropped at a time when many viewers themselves are dealing with grief (related to “a collective loss of normalcy” caused by the pandemic).
7 must-read books by Indigenous authors
From Melissa Lucashenko to Bruce Pascoe, here are seven books by Indigenous authors you should read this year.
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What narratives do we tell ourselves about our history? And more importantly, from what perspective?
Indigenous storytelling offers what Bundjalung/Kullilli/South Sea Islander presenter Daniel Browning describes as an authentic and unvarnished version of Australia .
“There is deep honesty in our storytelling because the time for lies is past and the truth is the best way forward, the presenter of ABC RN’s AWAYE! says.
If you re looking for books written by Indigenous authors in the lead up to January 26, there s plenty to choose from. But where to start?
Like most Gothics, the Australian Gothic has acquired its own distinct aesthetic most frequently, an abject unpleasantness and atmosphere of sand-scoured horror. Personally, I’d like to blame both
Evil Angels (aka
Strange Objects (1990) for many of my own nightmares.
It is also, like most Gothics, tangled up with the genre’s own past, and inextricably knotted into colonial and imperial histories as well as the multitude of other mirrored and recurring histories typical of a Gothic plot. And Australia has a bloody history, with terrible things done and still being done. Yet there are also stories which, without shying away from terrors (although not necessarily innately any better at handling the true history than other varieties of Australian Gothic), manage in a variety of fascinating ways to capture a sense of great (even sublime, often terrifying, never false) beauty.