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