New Anthologies and Journals
Meanjin Vol 69 Number 1
$24.99 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
THE MARCH EDITION OF MEANJIN LOOKS AT CHARISMA: OF RELIGION, OF SCIENCE, OF TEACHERS.
We also launch Meanland, an exciting new collaboration with Overland (www.meanland.com.au) with an article by McKenzie Wark on copygif... More »
McSweeney's No. 33: The San Francisco Panorama
$26.95 (Paperback book / Mcsweeneys )
Issue 33 of McSweeney’s Quarterly will be a one-time-only, Sunday-edition sized newspaper—the San Francisco Panorama. It'll have news (actual news, tied to the day it comes out) and sports and arts coverage, and comics (... More »
Kill Your Darlings: Issue One
$18.00 (Paperback book / Kill Your Darlings Pty Ltd )
Kill Your Darlings is a new literary journal of fiction, commentary and investigative journalism, essays and reviews. Kill Your Darlings publishes work that has fresh, intelligent angles, is anecdotal but informed, and s... More »
Review
Best European Fiction 2010
$24.95 (Paperback book / Dalkey Archive Press )
Historically, English-language readers have been great fans of European literature, and names like Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann are so familiar we hardly think of them as foreign at all. What those writ... More »
Read Hard: 5 Years Of Great Writing From The Believer
$37.95 (Paperback book / Mcsweeney )
This volume collects the finest essays and articles from the four-time National Magazine Award–nominated Believer magazine.
The book combines all the erudition and wit readers have come to expect from its pages: Jonath... More »
The Paris Review Interviews: Volume 4
$34.95 (Paperback book / Canongate )
Since the Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age. Here is the fourth collection of brilliant interviews to be gathered together, ‘a bible both for ... More »
Quarterly Essay 37: On The Future Of Conservatism: Where The Right Went Wrong
$19.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
What did George W. Bush and John Howard do to conservatism? In their wake, the conservative parties in the US and Australia seem to have lost their way – they no longer have a vision of the future. Their neoconservative ... More »
Granta 109: Work
$29.99 (Paperback book / Granta )
Work. Everybody does it, though some now less than before; most of us loathe it, though some love it too much. What would we be without it? And what does it mean to work today?
Perhaps the most enduring legacy of the Ind... More »
The United States Of McSweeney's: 10 Years Of Accidental Classics
$49.95 (Paperback book / Hamish Hamilton )
Since 1998 McSweeney's Quarterly Concern has been emerging from various kitchens, attics and an old laundromat roughly four times a year – or definitely at least three. In those ten years, almost 100,000 stories have bee... More »
Griffith Review 27: Food Chain
$24.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )
We are what we eat—and in an era of climate change, food is the canary in the mine. Prices are rising, droughts and storms are affecting farmers, and the global model of food production is under challenge. Food Chain exp... More »
Brothers And Sisters
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
Critics and readers alike have long commented on Charlotte Wood's ability to portray sibling relationships in her novels. Life-long resentments, tensions, alliances and affections between brothers and sisters play out in... More »
Lost and Found: Visible Ink 21
$17.95 (Paperback book / )
Visible Ink is a Melbourne-based collective that has been showcasing new writers for the past 21 years.
Hell that’s really something.
It’s run out of RMIT by a diverse bunch of journalists, writers of shorts, novellas ... More »
Meanjin Vol 68 Number 4
$24.99 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
Jane Gleeson-White ponders the power of storytelling traditions from Homer to Alexis Wright and Richard King rethinks Shakespeare’s sonnets and speculations of love. In a special ten-thousand word essay, novelist Charlot... More »
The Best Australian Stories 2009
$29.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
In The Best Australian Stories 2009, Delia Falconer collects the year's most outstanding short fiction, showcasing the strength and diversity of Australian writing today. There are masterful stories from some of th... More »
The Best Australian Poetry 2009
$24.95 (Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr )
The Best Australian Poetry series, now in its seventh
year, is widely recognised as the most reliable guide to what is
new and remarkable in Australian poetry.
Alan Wearne, guest editor of the 2009 volume, brings to this... More »
The Best Australian Poems 2009
$24.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
In The Best Australian Poems 2009, award-winning poet Robert Adamson puts together a selection of the most outstanding poems written by Australian authors over the past year. Alongside renowned names, the editor has soli... More »
The Best Australian Essays 2009
$29.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
The Best Australian Essays 2009, compiled by Robyn Davidson, presents a selection of the year's best non-fiction. With wonderful essays by Australia's finest writers, this diverse collection captures the year that ... More »
Review
The Words We Found: The Best Writing From 21 Years Of Voiceworks Magazine
$25.00 (Paperback book / Express Media )
Over the last 21 years Voiceworks magazine has published some of Australia’s best writing by young people. Edited by Lisa Dempster, The Words We Found is our coming-of-age anthology and, like all good 21st celebrations, ... More »
Readings and Writings: Forty Years in Books
$24.95 (Paperback book / )
Since opening in 1969, Readings has grown to become one of the most renowned and beloved bookshops in Melbourne and a landmark on the local literary scene. From the first small shop on Lygon Street to its current six loc... More »
Review
Griffith Review 26: Stories For Today (The Fiction Issue)
$24.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )
A new world is taking shape, driven by globalisation and the increasing complexity of our era. We are at a point in history where the artists and story tellers are best placed to define us to ourselves.
Stories for Today... More »
Torpedo Issue 6
$20.00 (Paperback book / )
Our first almost entirely graphic issue, The Bullet features comics, fake ads and other miscellany from the likes of Jeffrey Brown, Paul O'Connell, Oslo Davis, Tim Molloy, Stanley Donwood, Ghost Patrol, Mandy Ord, Adam G... More »
Griffith Review 25: After The Crisis
$24.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )
Recessions change countries. The global financial crisis will change the world.
Corruption at the heart of the banking system triggered this crisis. In an interconnected world it spread like a pandemic, with remarkable s... More »
Meanjin Vol 68 Number 3
$24.99 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
Contents Editorial by Sophie Cunningham
Newsreel
- With Jessica Au, Carol Jenkins, Mike Pottenger, Tim Richards, Pepi Ronalds and Sam Twyford-Moore
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- Notes on Provenance. Or, Tom Ross's Tooth by Carolyn ...
Literary Melbourne
$24.95 (Hardcover book / Hardie Grant )
Created to mark the celebration of Melbourne becoming a UNESCO City of Literature, this anthology draws together a selection of the best Melbourne and Victorian writing. Extracts from eighty writers across different genr... More »
Review
Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature
$69.95$49.95 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
A landmark anthology of Australian literary writing across all genres from over two centuries, this is an authoritative collection more than six years in the making, providing a window onto Australian culture. An essenti... More »
Review