Gilgamesh and the Invisible Hand

Sometimes we cling to theories of global orders and forget these theories don’t always lead where they should.

Review: The Liars – A complex thriller invaluable to the end

Despite its fantastical elements, it is embedded in social issues of our time.

LiteratureSylvia YeOctober 4, 2022book review, Australian literature, crime

evergreen

making night envious of our glamour and design

LiteratureAmy TanOctober 4, 2022nightlife, female gaze

“Where’s my legacy gone?”: The chronic misrepresentation of poet Gwen Harwood

In the eyes of the media she was housewife first, poet never.

LiteratureAriana HaghighiOctober 4, 2022Australian literature, poetry

Collective reading and the politics of reading together

The process of collective reading is a stark contrast to how we often conceive of reading as a solitary act

Literature, CultureGeorgia MantleOctober 4, 2022reading groups, student politics, abolition

Ma 間

This body of work is my personal visual haiku (俳句) to invite viewers to pause and perceive moments of beauty that are impermanent and imperfect.

LiteratureEstelle YoonSeptember 12, 2022ma, visual haiku, wabi-sabi, imperfection, queerness, photography

Review: All That's Left Unsaid — A delicate intertwining of nostalgia and the reality of loss

Lien skilfully crafts a poignant and gripping crime novel, although it feels reductive to refer to it as one.

LiteratureAlexandra DentSeptember 12, 2022book review, vietnam, Australian literature, crime

Review: My Sweet Guillotine — An enjoyable, easy read, but don’t expect much more than that

Jayne Tuttle’s My Sweet Guillotine was an enjoyable, easy read about love and French culture. But don’t expect much more than that.

LiteratureLizzy KwokSeptember 7, 2022book review, Australian literature, paris, Jayne Tuttle

yearning for what doesn't feel like pain

If time is an illusion, then so are memories.

LiteratureSimran ParekhSeptember 6, 2022prose poetry, time, memories, nostalgia

UnSteady: The story of the Great Australian Novel that never was

Christina Stead, novelist, Marxist, and Sydneysider, has been allowed to fade into partial canonical obscurity, in part due to failures to Americanise her unequivocally Australian work.

LiteratureGrace LaganAugust 21, 2022Australian literature, Miles Franklin, Christina Stead

Strathfield Library

who needs bricks when you have books?

Place, LiteratureKat Porritt-FraserAugust 21, 2022Strathfield Library, Sydney, Literature, Books