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Catriona Menzies-Pikeon Trent Dalton James Leyon Scott Morrison Isabelle Lion Yiyun Li Fernanda Dahlstromon Andy West John Mateeron Inglewood Oliver Reesonon Yves Rees Jeanine Leaneon First Nations Speculative Fiction Beth Driscollon Sally Rooney Lauren Carroll Harrison digital art Catriona Menzies-Pikeon Trent Dalton James Leyon Scott Morrison Isabelle Lion Yiyun Li Fernanda Dahlstromon Andy West John Mateeron Inglewood Oliver Reesonon Yves Rees Jeanine Leaneon First Nations Speculative Fiction Beth Driscollon Sally Rooney Lauren Carroll Harrison digital art
Reconnection and Restoration
Tolstoy Together isn’t meant to be a standalone book but a companion to War and Peace, a prolonged conference of avid reading minds, a guidebook not for pre-reading but for reinforcement of the distributed memories shared among the travellers after each day’s exploration.
The Uncondemned
While the reader can sympathise with West’s reluctance to impose his own ideas on the prisoners, where does this leave the debate around prison abolition and reform? And what validity, one is tempted to ask, do reform and abolition movements have if their agendas are not co-opted by those most affected?
Returning to Our Futures
What the First Nations writers in This All Come Back Now reveal is that the only civilization in need of saving is the present western capitalist one – for its capacity to self-destruct and for its inability to listen.
The Aesthetic Conduct of Sally Rooney’s Readers
What are the aesthetic possibilities offered by Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney’s blockbuster 2021 novel? To answer this question, we might look at the novel’s plot, characters, themes, style, narrative form. But we might also, inspired by a pragmatic view of art, look at how readers have made use of the novel.
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From the SRB archives:
Dan Dixonon Scott Morrison Peta MurrayFrancesca Rendle-Shorton queer kinship Michael Winkleron Luke Stegemann Jeanine Leaneon Evelyn Araluen Andrew BrooksTom Melickon the spreadsheet Dan Dixonon Scott Morrison Peta MurrayFrancesca Rendle-Shorton queer kinship Michael Winkleron Luke Stegemann Jeanine Leaneon Evelyn Araluen Andrew BrooksTom Melickon the spreadsheet
Kin-as-Ethics: experiments in un/authorised queer essay practice
As I begin to write kin and ethics a dear writing friend corresponds with me in messages about writing and love and rallying and the idea of being ‘inside the between’ when we come close how there is a ‘turning there’ how it is ‘the both of us’ and how the work of language of prepositions and prepositional thinking opens derring-do to a means of queering and transing language that becomes possible.
Blood Truths
I am perplexed by the space Stegemann gives to lashing political progressives, but I never doubt his sincerity. It would have been easier for him to bark the orthodoxy as it is understood by those people most likely to be his readers. And perhaps his views are closer to some progressive First Nations thinking than might be comfortable for those of us fretting away in the urban centres.