Griffith Review 69: The European Exchange by Ashley Hay (Editor); Natasha Cica (Editor)

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Category: Anthologies & Journals

Quarterly Essay 76: Red Flag: Waking Up to China's Challenge by Peter Hartcher

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Category: Anthologies & Journals | Series: QUARTERLY ESSAY 76

China has become a key nation for Australia's future - for our security, economy and identity. But what are China's intentions and strategy when it comes to Australia? In this gripping account, Peter Hartcher shows that we are entering an era of undeclared contestation, whether for hearts and minds, mi neral and agricultural resources, media outlets or sea lanes. Reactions include panic, xenophobia and all-the-way-with-the-USA - but the challenge now is to think hard about the national interest and respond with wisdom to a changed world. This urgent, authoritative essay blends reporting and analysis in trademark Hartcher style, and covers the local scene as well as the larger geopolitical picture. ...Show more

Griffith Review 68: Getting On by Ashley Hay

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Category: Anthologies & Journals | Series: Griffith Review Ser.

In a world where seventy is the new fifty, old age isn't what it used to be. By 2060, the ratio of Australians aged over sixty-five will have passed one in four. This unprecedented demographic transformation marks a quiet revolution with far-reaching consequences for both individuals and wider society. As the proportion of older people continues to rise, how will working patterns, leisure habits and modes of living be reshaped and refashioned to answer future needs? How will this shift in the balance of the population be addressed? Will our seniors be celebrated or marginalised, powerful or powerless? What approach will Australia take to the global phenomenon of long life? And how might listening to the wisdom of our elders change everyone's world? ...Show more

The Best American Short Stories 2019 by Anthony Doerr (Editor); Heidi Pitlor (Editor)

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Category: Anthologies & Journals | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.

#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year. ...Show more

After Australia by Michael Mohammed Ahmad (Editor)

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Category: Anthologies & Journals

Climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and the erasure of black history provide the backdrop for stories of love, courage and hope. In this unflinching new anthology, eleven of Australia's most daring Indigenous writers and writers of colour provide a glimpse of Austral ia as we head toward the year 2050. Featuring Ambelin Kwaymullina, Claire G. Coleman, Omar Sakr, Future D. Fidel, Karen Wyld, Khalid Warsame, Kaya Lattimore, Sarah Ross, Zoya Patel, Michelle Law and Hannah Donnelly. Edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad. Original concept by Lena Nahlous. Published by Affirm Press in partnership with Diversity Arts Australia and Sweatshop Literacy Movement. ...Show more

Chaser Quarterly: Issue 17: The Chaser Anthology - The 20 Years of the Chaser by The Chaser

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From the original newspaper, to their first show on Triple M, to the television years, the famous APEC stunt and through to middle-aged obscurity and bitterness. Includes in one place for the first time, all the best headlines, front covers and articles from the past 20 years.

Meanjin Vol 79 No 2 by Jonathan Green

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Intimacy Author and essayist Lucia Osborne-Crowley examines the cost of intimacy for women in a world where men demand exclusive access to the closeness of their female partners, often without returning the emotional labour involved. Other essays include- Academic and author Toby Miller looks at the st ate of the world, from climate change and species extinctions, to the culture of social media and misinformation, the growing gulfs of economic and social inequality, and concludes that the problem is universal and can be summed up in one word- capitalism. Critic and academic Emmett Stinson writes on the sad gap between the content provided by the news sources that inform us and, well, reality. Noongar author Claire G. Coleman writes on the long shadow of the Stolen Generations- 'Dad discovered he was Noongar when he was 63, when I was 30, when his Uncle Bob died...' Author Eleanor Gordon-Smith considers the irresistible rise of populism ... and how giving people what (they think) they want is reshaping the world. Poet Toby Fitch details Australian animal and bird extinction from 1788 to the present. And author Ellena Savage on the strange and deeply personal world of acknowledgement pages. Plus- New memoir, new fiction, and the best in new Australian poetry. ...Show more

Meanjin Vol 79 No 1 by Jonathan Green

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In this edition's cover essay, Gomeroi poet, essayist and scholar Alison Whittakertakes on the idea of white fragility and asks 'Has white people becoming more aware of their fragilities and biases really done anything for us--aside from finding a new way to say 'one of the good ones' or worse, asking u s to?'. Whittaker aims squarely at a progressive white culture that sees an elevated racial conscience as a path to post-colonial innocence. In other essays, Timmah Ball asks that most fundamental of questions- Why Write? 'Were they looking for the next successful blak book...' while Anna Spargo-Ryanwrites powerfully on the often-brutal history of abortion in women's lives and men's politics. Rick Mortonshares his version of Australia in Three Books and Maxine Beneba Clarkeconsiders risk and writers' acts of courage. New fiction fromYumna Kassab, Sue Brennan, Nick Robinson andJohn Kinsella, and poetry by Ouyang Yu, Sarah Holland-Batt, Marija Pericic and Andrew Sant. ...Show more

Speak My Language, and Other Stories: An Anthology of Gay Fiction by Torsten Høojer

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Category: Anthologies & Journals

'There is something special about literature . . . that addresses our innermost sexual and amatory selves. Gay stories offer us vindication, fellowship, validation and a sense of shared identity that we need now as much as ever,' writes Stephen Fry in the foreword to this anthology. In this exciting ne w collection of gay short stories, we hear from authors imagining, surmising, and revealing aspects of gay life from a multitude of perspectives, ages, eras, locations, cultures and political climates. Contributors range from those emerging into a life of writing to those who have enjoyed international mainstream success. Some, such as Felice Picano, were pioneers of not only gay writing but also gay liberation itself. Others are recipients of world-class awards, including Vestal McIntyre, whose Lake Overturn: A Novel was named Editor's Choice by the New York Times Book Review and Out magazine, and a Best Book of 2009 by the Washington Post. It also won the Grub Street National Book Prize and Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. The premise for stories included in this anthology was very simple - other than the stipulation that a major component of the story be in some way concerned with gay life, there were no restrictions. The aim was to bring together fictional reflections of gay life from the minds of authors approaching 'gay' from very different angles. As a result, genres in this collection range from action to sci-fi, from thriller to fantasy. The stories are set in countries including Australia, Cuba, England, Greece, Italy, Kenya, Portugal, Russia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, and the USA. The youngest contributor is in his twenties, the oldest in his eighties. Readers will find themselves immersed in an engaging set of stories remarkably different from one another, yet, as Stephen Fry notes, offering a surprising sense of shared identity. With stories by: Nick Alexander; Tim Ashley; James Robert Baker; Damian Barr; Neil Bartlett; Sebastian Beaumont; Scott Brown; Michael Carroll; Robert Cochrane; Alfred Corn; Neal Drinnan; Royston Ellis; Nigel Fairs; Hugh Fleetwood; Ronald Frame; Patrick Gale; Damon Galgut; John R. Gordon; Drew Gummerson; Matt Harris; Cliff James; Francis King; Joseph Lidster; David Llewellyn; Paul Magrs; Vestal McIntyre; Brent Meersman; Joseph Olshan; Diriye Osman; Tony Peake; Felice Picano; David Robilliard; Jerry Rosco; Jeffrey Round; Lawrence Schimel; Rupert Smith; Colin Spencer; Joshua Winning; Ian Young; and Richard Zimler. ...Show more

Granta 146 by Sigrid Rausing

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Category: Anthologies & Journals | Series: The\Magazine of New Writing Ser.

Granta 146 is guest-edited by Devorah Baum and Josh Appignanesi. We're living through hysterical times. Rage, resentment, shame, guilt and paranoia are everywhere surfacing, as is the intemperate adoration or hatred of popular but divisive public figures. Political discourse suffers when people seem to trust only what they feel and can no longer be swayed by reason or facts. If extreme feelings are a contagion within the political cultures of today, so too is the spread of a kind of affectlessness, as if we're starting to resemble the very technologies that threaten to replace us. Featuring vital new fiction, non-fiction, photography and poetry from across the globe, this issue is all about how our feelings make our politics, and how our politics make us feel. Adam Phillips, in conversation, analyses politics in the consulting room David Baddiel probes the outrage of life online Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor witnesses devastation Anouchka Grose on becoming a social justice warrior Peter Pomerantsev unearths his data profile to conduct sentiment analysis Poppy Sebag-Montefiore on China's public sense of touch Fabián Martínez Siccardi on growing up in Patagonia Margie Orford explores shame in South Africa Josh Cohen inspects his own apathy Hisham Matar reflects on Joseph Conrad and Edward Said Hanif Kureishi on Keith Johnstone and Keith Jarrett William Davies on affective politics Chloe Aridjis revisits the wild nights of her teenage years in Mexico City PLUS: FICTION: Benjamin Markovits, Olga Tokarczuk and Joff Winterhart POETRY: Alissa Quart and Nick Laird PHOTOGRAPHY: Diana Matar, introduced by Max Houghton ...Show more

Granta 148 by Sigrid Rausing

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Category: Anthologies & Journals | Series: The\Magazine of New Writing Ser.

New fiction from Andrew O'Hagan, Elif Shafak, Adam Foulds, David Means, Jem Day Calder, Magododi OuMphela Makhene, Caroline Albertine Minor, Thomas Pierce, Adam O'Fallon Price, Amor Towles. And Tom Bamforth on the refugee camp in Bangladesh known as 'Cox's Bazaar'. Published in book form four times a y ear, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding new fiction, poetry, reportage, memoir, photography and art. ...Show more

Meanjin Vol 78 No 3 by Jonathan Green

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Category: Anthologies & Journals

In the September Meanjin, author of The Tribe and The Lebs, and founder of Western Sydney's Sweatshop writing collective, Michael Mohammed Ahmad sets down an extraordinary account of literature, race and black activism in a landmark essay 'Reading Malcolm X in Arab Australia'. Ahmad draws parallels betw een the early life of Malcom X, the Black American Muslim and civil rights firebrand, and his own early years before and after the watershed moment of September 11, 2001. 'Sand nigger. I was fifteen years old the first time I heard this racial slur. A man with long brown hair and pasty white skin, who appeared to be drunk off his face, screamed it out at me from across the platform at Punchbowl train station. It was December 2001 and I was traveling home from school . . . Also in this edition, leading political commentator and author Peter van Onselen charts the turbulent waters that have all but swamped Australian conservative politics in recent years, and attempts to chart a path forward. More on politics from Katharine Murphy and novelist and critic James Bradley talks on a future clouded by the growing probability of environmental calamity and wonders how we might construct better possibilities when alternative realities are so hard to imagine. Khalid Warsame writes on The Vast Conspiracy of Memory . . . a majestic and sweeping essay on time, place, knowing, the body and the stories we tell. Plus- a brace of fresh fiction and poetry. ...Show more