Published 1 December 2021
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The December issue of Meanjin is titled: Words. It features a special series of non-fiction pieces in which Australian writers respond to one-word titles, including:
Sarah Krasnostein on Home • Tony Birch on (Dis)loyalty
Bruce Pascoe on Capital • Kate Holden on Elements
Christos Tsiolkas on Resentment • Maxine Beneba Clarke on Certainty
Scott Ludlam on Defiance • Bernard Keane on Betrayal
Anna Spargo-Ryan on Joy • Karen Wyld on Soar
Dan Dixon on Hunger • Omar Sakr on Jab (Sha’ara)
Up Front
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
Claire G. Coleman
MOONAH MIND
Gregory Day
CERTAINTY
Maxine Beneba Clarke
CYNICISM IN THE INFORMATION AGE
Ingrid Schreiber
INTO GREEN
Caroline Gardam
DESIRE: THE HOOK UPON WHICH EVERYONE HANGS
Alex Gerrans
Essays
AUSTRALIA IN THREE BOOKS
Yves Rees
RESENTMENT
Christos Tsiolkas
ELEMENTS
Kate Holden
TRACKING DARK EMU
Henry Reynolds
BETRAYAL
Bernard Keane
(DIS)LOYALTY
Tony Birch
CAPITAL
Bruce Pascoe
WHISPERING ROAD
Ben Walter
DEFIANCE
Scott Ludlam
SOAR
Karen Wyld
HUNGER
Dan Dixon
HOMEWORK
Sylvia Martin
THE TALE OF LAKE PEDDER
Danielle Wood
WATCHING
Peter Craven
WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY WE LOVE ANIMALS
Fatima Measham
A SQUANDERED INHERITANCE
Soon-Tzu Speechley
THE WHITE GAZE AND BROWN RAGE IN AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE
Daniel Nour
Memoir
JAB (SHA’ARA)
Omar Sakr
LOST
Mandy Ord
HOME
Sarah Krasnostein
THE THINGS YOU SEE WHEN YOU HAVEN’T GOT A GUN
Phil Doyle
JOY
Anna Spargo-Ryan
EYE CONTACT
Kara Eva Schlegl
THE BUTTERTHIGH EFFECT
Eloise Vigilantonie
THE RED SOIL ROAD
Garry ‘Sonny’ Martin
Fiction
THE MAN WHO LOVED THE PERSIMMON TREE
Arnold Zable
A QUIET WORLD
Anneliz Erese
INTERESTED IN CUSTARD
Ashley Goldberg
THE WHITE WARATAH
Carol Lefevre
ZUCCHINI
Monikka Eliah
Reviews
NOT WAITING BUT WANTING
Jonno Revanche
RESISTING THE COLONISING GAZE
Neala Qing Guo
FRAGILE NETWORKS
Caitlin McGregor
IT’S NOT A BAD BOOK, NECESSARILY
Hassan Abul and Dženana Vucic
CONTROLLED VISIBILITY
Munira Tabassum Ahmed
SLIDE INTO THE GLORY HOLE OF YOUR LIFE
Terri Ann Quan Sing
