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The work of desire, the work of identity, the work of standing still. The work of giving life, the work of telling truth, the work of making a home. This season, Meanjin’s writers are calling us to account. Join Editor ...

Join us and writers, readers, and poets to launch Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025! ...

Meanjin writers share their favourite books of 2024 ...

I’m about to read The Known Southern Land by Gabriel de Foigny (Spurl Editions, 2024, tr. Dana J. Lupo), purchased because the same publisher had I Am Not Ashamed by Barbara Payton and I noticed this curiosity while making that ...

Representations, not reality, both wildly outside comprehension and control. I cannot think of much else. What I am reading is also what I am drawing ...

The Burrow is at once candid and soothing in its quietly focused portrayal of the stasis of grief and the mess of family life ...

Chinese Postman is a dramatisation of changing terms and the exact conditions under which they change, no matter how fragmented or contradictory ...

The colonial literary imagination will always be limited and so too will white-led nonfiction platforms ...

Santilla Chingaipe’s debut work of ‘Australian’ history is a work of rigorous research that reframes the historical narrative of the continent, reminiscent of the cultural reckoning brought on by the publication of Dark Emu in 2014 ...

Evie Wyld’s The Echoes ultimately ends up reinforcing what it might claim to challenge ...

Join us Monday 2 December at Mary Martin Bookshop, Queen Victoria Market on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung land/Melbourne to launch Meanjin 83.4 Summer 2024! ...

Taken as a whole, Dusk is another terrific work ...

The novel’s basic plot could seem a familiar or even clichéd coming-of-age arc, but in de Kretser’s hands it is electric and complex ...

In Translations, Jumaana Abdu’s astounding debut novel, self-anointed ‘uncitizens’ Aliyah and Sakina alight upon a ruinous farm in Shepherd’s Mill as they embark on a new life ...

It is refreshing to read a piece of nature writing so firmly grounded in the Australian landscape ...