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This week in your Meanjin reading list we draw your attention to American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, current national correspondent for The Atlantic, and former Middle-East and Washington corresp...  >

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Christopher Hodges on how the Papunya Tula Artists changed the face of Australian art.

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The Book and Its Time by Ivor Indyk

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A case of sex, murder and mesmerism brings the Age of Sensation to Australia.

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As a young journalist in 1989 Sonya Voumard moved to Queensland, and discovered a strange and unfamiliar land

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Gabriella Coslovich finds Catholic influence and Indigenous heritage merge in the art of Balgo

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Rachel Buchanan learns to read the many moods of the road.

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Mark Willacy writes from a Japan still on edge after Fukushima.

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Jane Grant on the life, legacy and influence of Sam Goldberg.

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Helen Camakaris on how our evolutionary instincts are shaping our future on the planet.

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Lili Wilkinson on why teenagers today are the first generation of true readers.

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Richard King on the ever-increasing power of ‘offendedness’ in public debate.

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Tony Birch on the writing of his new novel, Blood.

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Following Bryan Keon-Cohen’s memoir, Nonie Sharp reflects upon the beginnings of the Mabo case.

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Simon Crean talks to Sally Heath about the National Cultural Policy and the state of the Arts in Australia

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Marcia Langton on the history and future of recognising Indigenous Australians in our Constitution.

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A collection of poetry, audio, photography and discussion around the idea of collaboration.

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Laurie Oakes speaks at the launch of Alex Mitchell’s Come the Revolution

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Owen Richardson on Gig Ryan’s New and Selected Poems.

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Mran-Maree Laing stays up one sweltering Sydney night and learns to live with the heat

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Peter Timms on the modern Wunderkammer that is MONA.

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Alexis Wright on the Deep Weather of 2010 and what it can teach about this land.

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Damon Young on the devilish art of biography.

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Michael Giacometti looks at the state of Indigenous publishing.

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Peter Craven talks Foster Wallace, Eugenides and ‘The Marriage Plot’.

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Simone Ubaldi puts her cynicism aside and reflects on the Ten Principles of the Burning Man Festival.

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Sally Heath talks to Robyn Nevin, Pamela Rabe and Aidan Fennessy about the MTC’s 2012 season

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Sam Cooney discusses the many joys of editing young writers.

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Who is that guy in the mirror, wonders Bob Charles

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Richard Flanagan on why true the novelist transcends politics, even their own.

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So close to home: Sophie Cunningham, Delia Falconer, Peter Timms, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Matthew Condon and Paul Daley discuss the process of writing the ‘cities’ series.

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Alex Miller reflects on his new novel, Autumn Laing and the people who inspired it.

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Maria Tumarkin meditates on a case of moral bankruptcy in the academic jungle

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Jeff Sparrow looks at how violence is used to foster public unity in the US.

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After the digital revolution, the passion for music remains, writes Simon Groth

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Ktima Heathcote finds literary culture in Tennant Creek alive and well

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Les Murray reflects on an original and disobedient telling of the national experience.

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Thomas Keneally considers the capaciousness of the garden of our national identity

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Henry Skerritt considers the memory of one man’s achievement.

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Brad Nguyen confronts the terrifying image of his own inevitable death and finds it to be Justin Bieber

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Guy Rundle makes a case for considering pornography on the scale of human sexuality.

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Julieanne Lamond looks at Australian literary values and whether they place women as outsiders.

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Stephanie Honor Convery traces the complexities of Indigenous storytelling.

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Mel Campbell takes the ‘Naipaul test’.

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Mandy Brett reflects on the joys, sorrows and hard slog of being an editor.