Meanjin Quarterly Vol 78 No 1 by Jonathon Green
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Category: Poetry
In the issue's cover essay, 'Quest and Queerness- Role-Playing Identity', Adolfo Aranjuez writes on sexuality, gender and the trouble with pinning down a satisfactory, and true, sense of self. He settles on queer. 'Queer is fallible but it embodies the very illusory stability that it challenges. Non-bin ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 78 No 2 by Jonathan Green
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Category: Poetry
Clementine Ford wonders whether the #metoo movement represents a turning point for women, Anna Spargo-Ryan thinks not: 'In the wake of #MeToo, when women said 'this time it will be different', it wasn't.' Joumanah El Matrah picks over the idea of religious freedom, Liz Conor recalls the section 18C case ...Show more
Griffith Review 64: The New Disruptors by Ashley Hay
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Category: Poetry | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The original pioneers of Silicon Valley dreamed of a better world, but digital disruption has become a threatening catchphrase in recent years. Many of the technologies now at our fingertips are deliberately disruptive, changing industries, economies, politics and institutions, and many facets of our li ...Show more
The Journals Of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath; Karen V Kukil (ed.)
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of literature. These exact and complete transcriptions of t ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
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Category: Poetry
This is Orwell's record of a period in the late Twenties when he lived among the tramps, dregs and plongeurs of London and Paris. 'It is the white-hot reaction of a sensitive observant, compassionate young man to poverty, injustice and the callousness of the rich ...It offers insights rather than soluti ...Show more
Southerly 78-2 by Southerly (Created by)
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Category: Poetry
The Lives of Others is concerned with the debts and obligations that accompany the passing of the generations. 'For no one bears this life alone' is how Hoelderlin describes the mutuality that binds us to our forebears. Each of the contributors to this issue of Southerly endeavours to understand the way ...Show more
That Glimpse Of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written by David Miller (Editor)
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Category: Literature
The 100 finest short stories ever written, collected in one volume. Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: the short story is capable of almost anything. This collection of 100 of the finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, the traditional to the surreal. Wide in scope, both ...Show more
Desire: 100 of Literature's Sexiest Stories by Erotic Review
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Category: Literature
100 of literature's sexiest stories, chosen by Mariella Frostrup and the Erotic Review. Strict mistresses, naughty maids, handsome gardners and disarming strangers; literature is awash with love, sex and desire. This collection brings together 100 of the best examples, hand-picked by Mariella Frostrup ...Show more
An Ordinary Magic by Anna Foletta; Tilda Foletta (Illustrator)
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Category: Poetry
an ordinary magic is Anna Foletta's first book of original poetry and is a powerful and vulnerable exploration of the world around her. This book is a raw and intimate collection of musings, exploring the journey of finding magic in the perfect wonderfulness of ordinary life. It offers a deeply personal ...Show more
Unquiet by Linn Ullmann
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Category: Literature
'Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth. I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters' RACHEL CUSK He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, by the actress he directed and once loved. Each summer of her childho ...Show more
Wild: Poems by Ben Okri
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Category: Poetry
Poems of living and loving from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist, essayist, dramatist and poet, Ben Okri, explores the beauty contained in each one of us - the freedom of our spirit, the child ...Show more