Evie Wyld’s fourth novel, The Echoesis by turns exquisite and frustrating. It revolves around the world of Hannah, a white Australian in her 30s who lives in a South London flat that she now unknowingly shares with the ghost of her boyfriend Max. Bound to her former home, Max is a ghostly narrator forced to […]
As a screenwriter, playwright and author, Moira Buffini knows a thing or two about film adaptations. Here are her favorites. Queen, King, Ace, Spy by John Le Carré Le Carré’s dysfunctional and desperately lonely spies are beautifully brought to life in Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan’s brilliant screenplay. The Hunger Games and Catching Fire by […]
One of the great things about speculative fiction is that it can tackle big issues without being as bogged down by the minutiae of the everyday world as so-called realism. This week we have two great books that fall into this category, novels that create vivid, quirky worlds that linger in the memory. Rachelle Atallas […]
Over the last decade, I and many others like me have tried to bridge this gap in understanding. We have participated in interviews with anthropologists, journalists and documentary filmmakers. We have travelled and spoken at all kinds of international panels and conferences. We launched an indigenous mapping project to show the government and the oil […]
