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Karen Fletcher is furious. She stands on an uneven picnic table and her legs shake as she addresses the few hundred people who have gathered with her to protest the demolition of the public housing tower that reaches toward the ...

Location: Brewarrina Aboriginal Museum Time: Afternoon, Wednesday 15 September Speakers: Bradley Hardy, Tourists, Man No.1, Woman No.1, Paul Magee, Small Child, Paul Collis, Man No.2, Woman No.2, Man No.3, Woman No.3, Layna Onji, Barry (‘Baz’) Buzzey BRADLEY: Come across, ...

On the first day after the cows disappear, I swing both feet onto the earth and set the Trojan against Naffy’s stump ...

I took a shower that first night because the bathtub was filled with packing peanuts ...

Webster’s argument in The Slip is that the forces of grief and desire are irremediably peculiar ...

David Stavanger’s The Drop Off makes light of an unfortunate and consuming life situation taking place in a degrading world dominated by climate change and capitalism ...

Reviewed: The Bearcat, Georgia Rose Phillips, Picador Jesus is back and he’s a white woman in Mount Dandenong—at least, this was the self-proclamation made by real-life cult leader Anne Hamilton-Byrne at the centre of Georgia Rose Phillips’ debut novel The ...

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Reviewed: Saturation, William Lane, Transit Lounge   Saturation is a science fiction novel by William Lane—not the William Lane who, inspired by Edward Bellamy’s socialist utopian novel Looking Backward, moved to Paraguay to settle a New Australia. Instead, this particular ...

Join us at 6 for a 6:30pm start tonight, Wednesday 25 June, for the launch of Meanjin 84.2 Winter 2025! Rug up, readers! Meanjin launches start manifesto-style in the Readings laneway. Wear your favourite coat and prepare to be moved— · Claire G. Coleman will read ...

Ambitious and atmospheric, Salvage is let down by heavy-handed characterisations and a trope-heavy ending ...

Rawson has written one of the better human perspectives on the realities of nature ...

I Ate The Whole World To Find You is an impressive offering that demands attention ...

In The Theory of Everything, Yumna Kassab uses sweeping narratives to describe the minutiae and capture what looms large ...

‘You know Melbourne was at one stage slated to go by the name of Batman. We’d be Batmanians by now.’ ...

When people break from their everyday routines, something unresolved or unwanted often emerges ...