Published 3 December 2018
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‘You have to go back in time to change a predicted future. If you can predict it today it’s already too late. This sounds paranoid but it’s also amazing.’
In her lead essay in the Summer edition of Meanjin, Briohny Doyle ponders technology, time, sex and paranoia, with illustrations from Mandy Ord. Also in this issue, Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian maintain an online conversation during The Last Days of Manus Prison, and Katharine Murphy charts the decline and fall of Malcolm Turnbull.
Plus: Mark McKenna, Yen-Rong Wong, Melissa Lucashenko, Eloise Grills, Sumudu Samarawickrama, Guy Rundle, Shastra Deo and Shaun Micallef.
Meanjin Papers
TIME MACHINE
Briohny Doyle & Mandy Ord
Up Front
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
Shaun Micallef
UNSUNG HERO OF THE DISH
Sarah Hall
THE UNCANNY TRUMPSTER
Rod Giblett
CAUGHT ON TAPE
Geoff Lemon
WHY ARE SWORDS STILL A THING?
Damon Young
GARDEN’S GONE
Caroline Gardam
Essays
AUSTRALIA IN THREE BOOKS
Eliza Berlage
PRIME MINISTER DISRUPTED
Katharine Murphy
WRITING AS A SOVEREIGN ACT
Melissa Lucashenko
THE LAST DAYS IN MANUS PRISON
Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian
IN SEARCH OF EMILY
Mark McKenna
GETTING AWAY WITH IT
Shannon Burns
THE VERY MODEL OF A MODEL ETHNIC MINORITY
Yen-Rong Wong
PONDERING THE ABYSS
Barry Corr
NGAJURLANGU—’ME TOO’
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
PATHS TO AMNESIA
Luke Stegemann
UNRAVELLING THE TAPESTRY
Emma Pitman
FIRE AND FURY AND MY KIDS
Cameron Muir
ESCAPE ARTISTS AND THE PURSUIT OF OBSCURITY
Siobhan Lyons
THE OCEAN LAST NIGHT
Gregory Day
FREE VERSE AND ITS DISCIPLINES
Martin Langford
COWS FOR PEACE
Tim Robertson
THE POWER AND PURPOSE OF LITERATURE
Alexis Wright
Memoir
BAD DRIVERS
Eloise Grills
EVERY TIME I SEE YOU FALLING
Guy Rundle
I HAVEN’T LEARNED YET TO SPEAK AS I SHOULD
Dan Dixon
FIFTY YEARS OF INNOCENT HAPPINESS
Tracy Sorensen
YOU DON’T GET TO CHOOSE
Suzy Freeman-Greene
Fiction
THE BURIAL OF THOMAS À BECKETT
Jonathan Dunk
RATHU
Sumudu Samarawickrama
HOW THE STARS TRAVELLED TO EARTH AND ABANDONED THE MOON
Justine Hyde
THE LOTTERY
Laurie Steed
PERFECT
Kate Ryan
SKI NIGHT
Jamie Marina Lau
Poetry
Joyride
Warwick Sprawson
Love Poem
Prithvi Varatharajan
Shadow: A Parable
Maria Takolander
Real
Sue Lockwood
The Satin Man
Kate Cantrell
What the Finch Knows
Kevin Brophy
Heart Heal Thyself
Robin M Eames
Glow
Lisa Brockwell
Ode to Doubt
Belle Ling
Bone Nest
Shastra Deo
