Published 15 September 2020
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In our September edition, there’s a brace of fine writing in the time of Covid-19.
From Jack Latimore, ‘Through a Mask, Breathing’: an expansive, lyrical essay that couples a local response to the Black Lives Matter movement to ideas around gentrification, St Kilda, Sidney Nolan and the life and music of Archie Roach, all of it set against the quiet menace of the pandemic.
In other pieces drawn from our Covid moment, Kate Grenville charts the troubled progress and unexpected insights of days under lockdown, Fiona Wright finds space and rare pleasures as the world closes in, Krissy Kneen takes on the sudden obsession with ‘iso-weight’, Justin Clemens searches for hope in the world of verse, Desmond Manderson and Lorenzo Veracini consider viruses, colonialism and other metaphors, and there’s short fiction from Anson Cameron, ‘The Miserable Creep of Covid’.
Meanjin Papers
THROUGH A MASK, BREATHING
Jack Latimore
Up Front
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
Adolfo Aranjuez
TOO LITTLE, TOO MUCH
Evelyn Araluen
THE STARGAZER
Anna Thwaites
INTAGLIO
Fiona Rutkay
WHAT IS A WOMAN?
Jane Gilmore
Essays
AUSTRALIA IN THREE BOOKS
Amy McQuire
WHERE THEN SHALL HOPE AND FEAR—
Justin Clemens
SEEING THE CRIMINAL FOR THE CRIME
Mahmood Fazal
QUARTET
Yumna Kassab
SOUL-EATERS
Verity Borthwick
BUBBLES: COVID AND ITS METAPHORS
Desmond Manderson and Lorenzo Veracini
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK …
Ellena Savage
PROJECTED DARKNESS
Ruby Hamad
NO PETS, BUT SURROUNDED BY ANIMALS
John Kinsella
PURE REACTION
Matthew Sini
THE PASSIONS OF THE BROKEN-HEARTED
Carolyn Strange
THE GREAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
Peter Craven
WHAT DOES THE PELL VERDICT MEAN FOR CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE VICTIMS?
Matthew Ricketson
WALKING WURUNDJERI COUNTRY
Declan Fry
CONNECTING FLIGHTS
Harry Saddler
Memoir
LOCKDOWN
Kate Grenville
AGAIN AND AGAIN WHOM WE LOVE
Fiona Wright
ISO-WEIGHT
Krissy Kneen
THE CLIMB OF A LIFETIME
James Strohfeldt
THE HIDDEN DIARY
Lucy Sussex
WISHING FOR WONTONS
Benjamin Lee
Fiction
BOCK BOCK
Andrew Roff
COMPANY
George McElroy
THE MISERABLE CREEP OF COVID
Anson Cameron
CLOSE THE EYES OF YOUR CONSCIENCE
Mardin Arvin
Reviews
THE EXHILARATING LEAP FORWARD
Ruby Hamad
GUILT MOUNTAIN
Jinghua Qian
EXQUISITE, TROUBLING DEPTHS
Harry Saddler
TRUTHS AND ARROWS OF YA
Adele Walsh
