Compromised SpeechWith the aid of algorithms, the medium has become the message with a vengeance. In this essay, Prithvi Varatharajan recalls the ways we used to connect online before social media to prefigure a less frenetic future for digital communication.Prithvi Varatharajan4 Nov. 2024
The Ghost of 48With characteristic allegorical obliquity, Yumna Kassab shows how the thematics of haunting and possession in ghost stories offer a way to address the historical nightmares that continue to grip us in the present.Yumna Kassab31 Oct. 2024
Sea-ShapedWhat does it mean to think of the sea as ‘alive with meaning’? Killian Quigley takes on James Bradley’s challenge to think more deeply about the ocean not only as an object of ecological concern, but also a site of ethical and imaginative renewal....Killian Quigley18 Oct. 2024
One with AnotherSifting through the textual layers of Gail Jones’ most recent novel, Alix Beeston finds not only a revival of modernist techniques in Jones’ unpicking of modernism’s legacy, but also a timely defence of more immersive forms of literary criticism.Alix Beeston16 Oct. 2024
The Arts WorkerIan Burn is still best known as a stalwart and apostate of Conceptual art. Reviewing his collected writings, Victoria Perin surveys the less tractable side of Burn’s work, from his speculative studies of landscape to his anecdotal fabrications.Victoria Perin15 Nov. 2024
Enemies of GoodnessDo ‘viral’ essays still hold up in print? Catriona Menzies-Pike considers the recent books of two critics – Lauren Oyler and Becca Rothfeld – who forged their reputations in a digital literary culture whose channels of circulation are now closing....Catriona Menzies-Pike1 Nov. 2024
Sea-ShapedWhat does it mean to think of the sea as ‘alive with meaning’? Killian Quigley takes on James Bradley’s challenge to think more deeply about the ocean not only as an object of ecological concern, but also a site of ethical and imaginative renewal....Killian Quigley18 Oct. 2024
One with AnotherSifting through the textual layers of Gail Jones’ most recent novel, Alix Beeston finds not only a revival of modernist techniques in Jones’ unpicking of modernism’s legacy, but also a timely defence of more immersive forms of literary criticism.Alix Beeston16 Oct. 2024
Slow FeelingLyn Hejinian, one of the leading Language poets, passed away in February 2024. On the one-year anniversary of the publication of Allegorical Moments, Kate Fagan sounds an elegy to a lifetime’s work of resisting closure and cultivating community.Kate Fagan15 Nov. 2024
Discontinuous ConnectionsOn its fiftieth anniversary, Matthew Lamb argues for the significance of Frank Moorhouse’s The Electrical Experience, a work of fiction that showcased its author’s experimental technique as well as his intellectual engagement with media theory.Matthew Lamb11 Nov. 2024
Compromised SpeechWith the aid of algorithms, the medium has become the message with a vengeance. In this essay, Prithvi Varatharajan recalls the ways we used to connect online before social media to prefigure a less frenetic future for digital communication.Prithvi Varatharajan4 Nov. 2024
The Ghost of 48With characteristic allegorical obliquity, Yumna Kassab shows how the thematics of haunting and possession in ghost stories offer a way to address the historical nightmares that continue to grip us in the present.Yumna Kassab31 Oct. 2024
Settling ScoresIn the wake of the women’s World Cup, Ruth McHugh-Dillon speaks to Ellen van Neerven about playing sport on Indigenous land and the challenges – of classification and acknowledgement – laid down by their latest book, Personal Score.Ruth McHugh-Dillon, Ellen van Neerven28 Aug. 2023
Unveiling through artCigdem Aydemir is a Sydney-based contemporary artist whose work primarily engages with the topic of veiling and the way in which Muslim women are commonly depicted and perceived in Australian society.Kobra Sayyadi28 May. 2023
Murnane's Signposts‘Does telling literature to get fucked mean you are articulating a new understanding of what literature is and what it can do vis-à-vis its apparent opposite, which might be something like “life”?’Joseph Steinberg27 Nov. 2022
Sumud: A Conversation with Paula AboodEvery project is a valuable project. My first questions are always, ‘What do you need?’ ‘What do you want?’, ‘What do you need me to do?’Roanna Gonsalves16 Oct. 2022
