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75.3 Spring 2016

Published 15 September 2016

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Not the marrying kind? You’re not alone. As Lauren Rosewarne reports, more the 40 percent of Australian women between 25 and 64 are single. By choice? By design? By circumstance? For better? For worse? Lauren takes a deeply personal look at a phenomenon that is quietly reshaping our world.

The facts are thinner on the ground elsewhere, especially in the world of politics and public affairs. Katharine Murphy wonders how journalism might deal with a political world in which facts and simple truth are out of favour, a theme picked up by the wonk’s wonk, Greg Jericho.

That legend of Australian arts writing Patrick McCaughey casts a cold eye over the critical career of the late Robert Hughes and comes away just a little less than impressed, while Angela Smith wonders whether our major galleries are slowly but surely embracing the ethos of the circus.

Timmah Ball contemplates the rise…

 

 

Meanjin Papers

CHOOSE YOUR OWN (MISS)ADVENTURE
Lauren Rosewarne

 


Up Front

NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
Toby Ralph
IT HAD BECOME MY INSTINCT TO LAUGH
Gabrielle Jackson
BUT ENOUGH ABOUT ME
Richard Chirgwin
THE GUIDEBOOK
Alice Melike
Ülgezer
VIEW FROM A TREEHOUSE
Jane Gilmore
RECOGNITION FROM THE RIGHT
Dominic Kelly

 

Essays

AUSTRALIA IN THREE BOOKS
Katherine Brabon
THE RANCOR OF ROBERT HUGHES
Patrick McCaughey
TRUTH AND THE NEW POLITICS
Katharine Murphy
ART NOW
Angela Smith
DOWN ON THE DATA
Greg Jericho
WHO’S AFRAID OF THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS?
Timmah Ball
THE LABOUR MOVEMENT: MY PART IN ITS DOWNFALL
Tim Lyons
BURGERS AND BIRTHRIGHTS
Eleanor Gordon-Smith
ARTS FUNDING: THE RANDOM ALTERNATIVE
Martin Langford
BEING BOB ELLIS
Jan McGuinness

Memoir

NOW NO-ONE HERE IS ALONE
Melissa Howard
A CAPACITY TO LIE
Luke Stegemann

 

Fiction

JACKALOPE
Emma Schwarcz
GIRLS CALLING GIRLS
Laura Stortenbeker
THE LAST THING SHE EXPECTED
Erin Ritchie
MISTER CARDIGAN
Colin Varney
FROM THEIR BRILLIANT CAREERS
Ryan O’Neill

 

Poetry

YEAR OF THE WASP
Joel Deane
BACCHUS MARSH ROAD
Brendan Ryan
PAUL KLEE’S FISH MAGIC
Jan Dean
TINY ISLAND
Jill Jones
BRANCH
Stuart Cooke
WINDBORNE AVENUE
Louis Klee
PETRICHOR
Broede Carmody
OF BOOKS AND SILENCE
Peter Boyle
INVISIBLE CITIES
David McCooey
FRESH HEAVEN
Michael Farrell

 

 

 

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84.3 Spring 2025
84.2 Winter 2025
84.1 Autumn 2025

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