Tsiolkas on The Slap, the whiteness of beauty, spying for ASIO, Melbourne re-mixed and much, much more.
CONTENTS
- Jeff Sparrow − Editorial
FEATURES
- Christos Tsiolkas − The Slap 1.0
- Maxine Clarke − The unbearable whiteness of beauty
- Rodney Hall − Copyright, the market and the survival of Aust Lit
- Dennis Altman − Escaping the tribe?
- Bob Brown − The will of the people
- Jenny Hocking − The election that never was
- Carmela Baranowska − ‘Why are you still alive?’
- Thomas Shepherd − A life in mirrors
- Tara June Winch − Picture of a Shell-shocked land
MELBOURNE FUTURES FICTION
- Margo Lanagan − Until the solid earth dissolves
- Andrew Morgan − Heart of dockness
- Jack Dann − Mohammed’s angel
- Lucy Sussex − Riot on the State Library lawn
POETRY
- Cassandra O’Loughlin − Nourishment
- Desh Balasubramaniam − North − East Anthem
- Elena Knox − Salacia
- Tanja Kovac − Cultural Cringe
- Paul Mitchell − Second Marriage
- Debbie Lim − Taking Blood
- Bonny Cassidy − Lining space, drying time
- π.o. − Ned Kelly
- Joel Scott − Four Heads, Morocco
- Eddie Paterson − Blood on the tracks
- Qi Guo, translated by Ouyang Yu − Mid Autumn
- Kevin Gillam − small religion
REVIEWS
- Tom Clark - Journey Without Arrival
- Bel Monypenny - The Red Highway
- John McLaren - 60 Classic Australian Poems
- Laurie Clancy - Doing Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley
- Lyndon Megarrity - The Dreaming and Other Essays
