
‘Axiomatic’ by Maria Tumarkin
Culture
This collection of bracing essays interrogates how we view the past
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‘Axiomatic’ by Maria Tumarkin
Culture
This collection of bracing essays interrogates how we view the past
‘The Only Story’ by Julian Barnes
Culture
The meticulous novelist takes on the oldest subject there is
‘A Sand Archive’ by Gregory Day
Culture
Day grasps landscape as an intimate living thing
‘Border Districts’ by Gerald Murnane
Culture
Writing that rewards patience
‘City of Crows’ by Chris Womersley
Culture
Picador; $32.99
‘The Choke’ by Sofie Laguna
Culture
Allen & Unwin; $32.99
What can’t be said in ‘Conversations with Friends’
Culture
The protagonists of Sally Rooney’s debut novel privilege irony over emotion
‘Home Fire’ by Kamila Shamsie
Culture
Shamsie’s seventh novel puts a modern spin on an Ancient Greek tragedy
‘Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker’ by Marie Darrieussecq
Culture
Trans. Penny Hueston; Text Publishing; $24.99
Lives of leisure
Culture
Robert Dessaix’s ‘The Pleasures of Leisure’ is a 21st-century defence of idleness
Her eloquent heart
Culture
Arundhati Roy’s ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ was worth the 20-year wait
‘Anything Is Possible’ by Elizabeth Strout
Culture
Viking; $29.99
‘Exit West’ by Mohsin Hamid
Culture
Hamish Hamilton; $32.99