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Sympathy for the devil: Helen Garner on This House of Grief

Helen Garner’s desire to identify and dissect the worst of human nature has always provoked passionate debate and, often, criticism. This same urge drives her new book, This House of Grief, in which...

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Adventures in reality with Oliver Mol

Oliver Mol is a challenging writer, his work deeply layered but so accessible it seems like some sort of trick. In person, he has a buoyant but restrained energy, an enthusiasm tempered by his laconic...

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What cannot be counted: reflections on the 2013 Stella Count

Today, the Stella Prize released the results of the 2013 Stella Count, which calculates the gender breakdown of authors reviewed in Australian newspapers. This year, as in previous years, the Count...

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Issue 19, October 2014

In this issue Martin McKenzie-Murray calls for an examination of the intricacies of domestic abuse; Lorelei Vashti ruminates on birth stories and asks why most people keep mum; Estelle Tang bites into...

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No. 19

EDITORIAL Brigid Mullane COMMENTARY Martin McKenzie-Murray ‘The Violence Beneath Us: On the Complexity of Domestic Abuse’ Estelle Tang ‘Things They Never Tell You about New York: A Year in the Big...

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Look Who’s Talking: A Birth Story

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou Waterslides had always been my greatest fear before I had a baby. When I was really little my dad had to bribe me with a...

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Questions of Belonging: How to Love This Ancient Sunburnt Country?

The first of October 1991 is a date I will always remember, because it’s the day that life, as I’d known it, changed forever. This sounds as dramatic as only a teenager can imagine, but I was a 14 year...

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‘Ain’t Love Grand': The Erasure of Bisexuality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

It’s not kosher to quote BuzzFeed as an authoritative source. However, in ‘117 Buffyverse Characters, Ranked from Worst to Best’ the ambitious Adam B Vary determined Willow Rosenberg as number one....

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Dark Places and Safe Spaces: S.A. Jones’ Isabelle of the Moon and Stars

S.A. Jones’ Isabelle of the Moon and Stars is a powerful and affecting depiction of a young woman struggling with mental illness and emotional turmoil. A book like Isabelle might well be described as...

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If all the writers in the world were starving pizza sellers, then where would...

Today is the third ever Pitch, Bitch Day! Pitch, Bitch is an initiative devoted to assisting women writers to promote and pitch their work for publication. One of the most important issues facing...

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