Journals
What do we do with literary magazines? How do we read these more or less accidental collections of literary fragments? How can we say that they matter? It would be nice if we could hold on to the heroic model of the modernist little magazine always ‘making it new’, forging a space for the advance guard, with what Nettie Palmer once called a ‘formidable absence of any business aims’. But, in the age of state subsidy and university support, and with large publishing houses intervening in the magazine market place, this would be sheer nostalgia – though in a form that might still motivate new magazine projects.
... (read more)The Coal Curse: Resources, climate and Australia’s future (Quarterly Essay 78) by Judith Brett
by Cameron Muir •
Meanjin Quarterly: Volume 79, Issue 2 edited by Jonathan Green
by Elizabeth Bryer •
Griffith Review 55: State of Hope edited by Julianne Schultz and Patrick Allington
by Robert Crocker •
The Lifted Brow: No. 28 edited by Stephanie Van Schilt, Ellena Savage, and Gillian Terzis
by Joseph Rubbo •
Offset No. 14 edited by edited by Angela Hryc, Hilal Kirmizi, and Anastasios Zaganidis
by Jessica Au •
Westerly: Vol. 59, No. 2 edited by Delys Bird and Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
by Luke Johnson •