Published 1 December 2023
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Summer warms us, brings us together, opens our hearts. Meanjin‘s writers began 2023 imploring us to get our house in order and prepare for what comes next. At the end of this momentous year, Australia’s journal of record offers that perfect art-fiction focus to accompany all your summer adventures.
The Meanjin Paper
YULENDJ BOONWURRUNG
N’Arwee’t Professor Carolyn Briggs
EDITORIAL
Esther Anatolitis
Σταθία Ανατολίτη
State of the Nation
DEFYING RACISM WITH LOVE AND CARE
Thomas Mayo
THE THYLACINE ICON
Kate Kruimink
LOWERING THE COST OF COURAGE
Kieran Pender
Fiction
THE GOODNESS OF THEIR HEARTS
Mykaela Saunders
ISO
Greg Foyster
TWELVE-STEP ALPHABET
Paddy O’Reilly
A WOMAN OF NINEVEH
Jumaana Abdu
THE STATION
Angela Meyer
LIKE WATER
Em Meller
ORC!
Nicholas Jose
THE FAT RACE
Daniel Sleiman
Interview
John Kinsella
Experiments
QUIET
Sevana Ohandjanian
HOW DO WE KIN? A MANIFESTO FOR
THESE UNPRECEDENTED CLIMES.
Kinonymous
CRYPTIC, QUICK, ANAGRAMMATIC
David Astle
Culture
AUSTRALIA IN THREE BOOKS: I, MEMOIR
Amy Gray
THE INTOLERABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING (RACIST)
Daniel Nour
INTO THE HEDGES THAT LINE THE WALK
Isabella Gullifer-Laurie
APPRAISING THE PANDEMIC
(OR, THE VIRUS TIME OF GLOBAL WARMING)
Lynda Ng
DOING OUR BEST
Gareth Morgan
DREAM THEOLOGY
Mira Schlosberg
Essays
ON CRITICISM
Jane Howard
THE GIVING AND TAKING AWAY OF VOICE:
WHAT ART CAN DO/
WHAT IT CAN’T
Heather Taylor Johnson
911 LONELY: CALL ME CALL ME CALL ME
Declan Fry
Memoir
THANK YOU FOR SCREAMING
Ellena Savage
LELDA SUNDAY REED
Maudie Palmer AO
WAYS IT COULD HAVE GONE
Emma Ashmere
The Year In
POETRY
Martin Langford
