Books
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Jock Serong’s ‘On the Java Ridge’ shows us a world our politicians would prefer we didn’t see
Briohny Doyle’s ‘Adult Fantasy’ looks at the increasingly blurred definition of adulthood in the 21st century
Robert Dessaix’s ‘The Pleasures of Leisure’ is a 21st-century defence of idleness
Arundhati Roy’s ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ was worth the 20-year wait
Rachel Seiffert’s ‘A Boy in Winter’ chronicles the physical and psychological brutality of war from multiple perspectives
Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ only scratches at the surface of America’s complex Southern states
