The Blazing WorldDrawing on Stephen J. Pyne’s idea of the Pyrocene, James Bradley explores how this periodisation – the Age of Fire – reframes our relationship with an element that has become an uncontrollable force as well as a figure for our ecological fate.James Bradley12 Sept. 2024
Genre CollapseDigital platforms have vastly expanded the reach of popular feminism. Reviewing Alice Cappelle’s new book, Finola Laughren considers what gets lost in the translation from screen to page and the broader stakes of feminism’s algorithm-friendliness....Finola Laughren16 Sept. 2024
The Frank Moorhouse Reading RoomIntroducing the Frank Moorhouse Reading Room project, author and critic Tegan Bennett Daylight reflects on the generational shifts that have shaped Australian writing as well as the creative and industrial legacies of Frank Moorhouse.Tegan Bennett Daylight5 Sept. 2024
Identity CrisisStuart Rollo reviews two books on foreign policy that help diagnose, and offer solutions to, Australia’s awkward geopolitical positioning as US hegemony wanes and China becomes an increasingly dominant force in the region.Stuart Rollo16 Sept. 2024
Quiet WorkRanging over Tony Birch’s writing career, Ruby Lowe’s review highlights the powerful reticence characteristic of Birch’s creative and critical output, one attuned to survival in the face of invasion and settlement as ‘a quiet moment of triumph’.Ruby Lowe16 Sept. 2024
Identity CrisisStuart Rollo reviews two books on foreign policy that help diagnose, and offer solutions to, Australia’s awkward geopolitical positioning as US hegemony wanes and China becomes an increasingly dominant force in the region.Stuart Rollo16 Sept. 2024
Genre CollapseDigital platforms have vastly expanded the reach of popular feminism. Reviewing Alice Cappelle’s new book, Finola Laughren considers what gets lost in the translation from screen to page and the broader stakes of feminism’s algorithm-friendliness....Finola Laughren16 Sept. 2024
Taking One for the TeamDespite an increasingly wide-ranging oeuvre, Judith Butler’s legacy remains tied to their work on gender. Zora Simic reviews Butler’s new book, a return to a field they helped shape, but wonders if it is born more out of duty than desire.Zora Simic16 Sept. 2024
Can I Take Your Picture?Since early 2024 Cherine Fahd has been photographing the picket outside the Prime Minister’s Marrickville office organised by Families for Palestine. Poised between craft and care, Fahd’s lens lays bare ‘the intimate poetics of political dissent’....Cherine Fahd16 Sept. 2024
Flexible Visual Systems and the SRBDesigner and developer Will McLean guides readers through the principles and process behind the SRB’s new digital platform. From FVS to CMS, McLean decodes the acronyms, showing how the website is a bellwether for web development in the age of AI....Will Mclean16 Sept. 2024
The Blazing WorldDrawing on Stephen J. Pyne’s idea of the Pyrocene, James Bradley explores how this periodisation – the Age of Fire – reframes our relationship with an element that has become an uncontrollable force as well as a figure for our ecological fate.James Bradley12 Sept. 2024
The Frank Moorhouse Reading RoomIntroducing the Frank Moorhouse Reading Room project, author and critic Tegan Bennett Daylight reflects on the generational shifts that have shaped Australian writing as well as the creative and industrial legacies of Frank Moorhouse.Tegan Bennett Daylight5 Sept. 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
