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Culture February 29, 2020
Melting Moments
Ruby grows up in the time of the passive tense – when appearance is everything, when she would do well to heed her elders, and when it is acceptable to assume that men only want one thing from a girl. But her daughter, Eva, coming of age with Whitlam …
Culture November 30, 2019
The Shelf Life of Zora Cross
Zora Cross was a poet and journalist writing a hundred years ago. The obviousness of the assertion that if she had been a man we would be considerably more familiar with her oeuvre doesn’t make the reality of it any less enraging. Her 1917 poetry collection, …
Culture February 15, 2020
Flight Lines
A growing number of writers grappling with the accelerated rate at which our habitat is changing are also demonstrating our connectedness to the natural world. This summer, those of us not directly in the line of fire have adapted to the haze and floods, …
Culture October 26, 2019
Bruny
Something is rotten in the state of Tasmania. When the Bruny bridge is bombed while under construction, United Nations conflict resolution expert Astrid Coleman’s twin brother, JC – who also happens to be the Tasmanian premier – asks her home from …
