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portrait July 13, 2019
Writer and activist Lamisse Hamouda
A chat with Lamisse Hamouda about how she freed her father from an Egyptian prison.
art July 13, 2019
With his bold, sumptuous paintings, Michael Armitage is intent on challenging colonial assumptions about East Africa and revealing the region’s complexities. “Sex, poverty and dictators: if you are talking about this part of the world, you always come up against those stereotypes and that’s been very difficult … For me, it’s been important to use an exotic language but show that it is also a form of dumbing down.”
art July 13, 2019
Material Place and The Gas Imaginary
As mining interests continue to dominate Australia’s landscape, two exhibitions at UNSW Galleries consider humanity’s exploitation of the planet’s resources.
books July 13, 2019
In this collection, which stands as an ode to the matriarchy and reinvigorates the art of letter-writing, poet Charmaine Papertalk Green imprints her multilingualism into the Australian consciousness through a trail of correspondence between herself...
books July 13, 2019
The US Lobby and Australian Defence Policy
Amid discussions about China’s attempts to expand its influence in Australia by means both overt and covert, a book that examines a far more successful operation involving another foreign power is especially welcome. Melbourne businessman Phil...
books July 13, 2019
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong’s debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous , takes its title from a poem in his 2016 collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds ; 10 verses spoken to a past lover, freighted with the same concerns that undergird the novel – war and its...
books July 6, 2019
While awaiting the publication of Ellena Savage’s debut essay collection, Blueberries , we have this blessing of a chapbook, Yellow City . A former editor of Farrago and The Lifted Brow , Savage has published widely already, her voice reassuringly...
books July 6, 2019
Set in the aftermath of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, Alice Bishop’s debut collection of stories packs an emotional punch. Bishop herself grew up in Christmas Hills, one of the towns ravaged by fire, and it is clear the ideas and stories in A...
portrait July 6, 2019
MONA FOMA and Dark Mofo’s Hannah Fox
A swim, au naturel, with associate creative director Hannah Fox.
