New research considers the true value of Meanjin, using publicly available data. The journal has trained generations of Australian writers and editors.
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In Mum’s Busy Work, Ardern uses her experience of being ‘a working mother who juggled mum guilt’ to open up a conversation and find a better way.
In Greg Sheridan’s latest book, “pagan” Rome is a straw man, against which he posits early Christianity as the loving and brave hero.
Alexis Wright’s work expresses a sovereign Aboriginal worldview, but owes a debt to a pantheon of authors from around the globe.
In Elizabeth Gilbert’s shocking new confessional memoir, she falls in love with her dying best friend, enables her addiction – and once again blows up her own life.
The launch of 5 new Australian book publishers is good news, for once. Meet Perentie Press, Pink Shorts Press, Evercreech Editions, Aniko Press and Bakers Lane Books.
Liz Evans went to Jarvis Cocker’s house party and was gifted shoes by Kim Gordon. Her review of music books by Kate Mossman and John Harris sits alongside her memories.
Chris Masters’ book on Ben Roberts-Smith was chosen to win the Australian War Memorial’s Les Carlyon Prize for Military History. But the prize wasn’t awarded. Why?
Roy’s portrait of her terrifying yet courageous mother is at the centre of this memoir, which charts her own embrace of danger as an activist-writer.
Written in Kelly’s vernacular, this Booker Prize- winning novel is a masterclass in mimicry. But in exploring injustice, there are telling erasures.
Mariam Rahmani’s witty debut novel, Liquid, set between the US and Tehran, is a rom com for the age of precarity.
Why are so many Americans unwilling to identify as liberals, white or otherwise, even while supporting traditionally ‘liberal’ government programs?
A new biography shows how Gertrude Stein has been celebrated, sidelined and criticised over the decades – as a revolutionary genius, charlatan and Nazi collaborator.
The largest copyright settlement in US history has established a crucial legal precedent for the relationship between AI companies and content creators.
Patrick Marlborough’s debut novel Nock Loose combines satire with a rather gnarly plot.
Shame is a feeling we struggle to know what to do with, precisely because we always seem to have too much or too little.
The stories of the Trojan War have been retold for millennia. Who are their key players and is there any truth to these tales?
The decision to close Meanjin is the latest in a string of recent decisions that suggest universities are not safe harbours for priceless cultural institutions.
Prepping in Australia is distinctive: less about guns and militias; more about food, water and community. While anti-government preppers are a problem, they’re rare.
Meanjin published the cream of Australia’s writers. With its sudden closure, a vital, 85-year thread of our cultural conversation will fall silent.
How did speech rules developed and promoted by the left become tools that could be wielded against it?
Doctor Shelley Sella was one of just a few who openly performed late-trimester abortions in the US. Her memoir, Beyond Limits, is also the story of the abortion wars.
In Homework, renowned writer Geoff Dyer meditates on the whole, small world of childhood – and how class influences who we become.
The genre of migrant autofiction, especially coming-of-age work, is blooming, but Raaza Jamshed’s book stands out.
A new book rewrites judgments in cases decided by the ICC from a feminist perspective.