
The Yield: A powerful story of violence and forms of resistance
The winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin award is a powerful and deeply moving book, unstinting in its depiction of socio-political disasters, writes Jen Webb.
The winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin award is a powerful and deeply moving book, unstinting in its depiction of socio-political disasters, writes Jen Webb.
Ahead of the announcement this week of the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner, cultural theorist Jenn Webb offers a guide to the six shortlisted novels – all of which tackle topics that ‘shimmer with relevance’.
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The novels in this year’s Miles Franklin Award shortlist are profoundly empathetic and attuned to contemporary Australia, writes Jen Webb.
Josephine Wilson’s 2017 Miles Franklin award-winning novel Extinctions nails the key anxieties and preoccupations of today’s society, writes Jen Webb.