The Postmodern Approach to Truth With the rise of Postmodernism, the veneration of truth, reasoning and evidence came to be seen as old-fashioned, or ‘problematic’, as they say today. There …
A Woman Talks to Her Tongue (Alison Gorman)
A Woman Talks to Her Tongue 1. Sometimes I wonder if the cat has caught you, swallowed you like an …
Shrove Tuesday (Lucas Smith)
My coconut flour pancakes were a failure. Although I had followed the recipe in I Can’t Believe It’s Not Gluten to the letter, somehow my mix would not blend. My …
Pacing the Stage (Deborah Conway)
On October 3 2023, I released a memoir, Book of Life. Four days later, the world changed. On October 7 we were in the middle of a matinee performance of …
Trust: A Fractured Fable (Jeanne Ryckmans)
MARCH 2020, SYDNEY A magistrate finalised an uncontested Apprehended Violence Order for two years against the Irish Professor under the Crimes Act (Domestic and Personal Violence) three weeks after he …
To Sing of War (Catherine McKinnon)
December 1944 1 Lotte Nialu She hears singing: one lone voice at first, clear and resonant, a tenor, then others join in, and the song rises and falls, until it …
The Leaves (Jacqueline Rule)
The morning sky is flat, a smooth grey pebble. There’s a row of trees across from the house where the social worker’s car has stopped, the limbs are pitted and …
BORDERLESS (Judith Nangala Crispin, Anne Casey, Zeina Issa)
Murder at Wave Hill Judith Nangala Crispin i. Yes, he is beautiful, the boy dancing with men, purlapa, snake story — his skin gleams oil and iron-red ochre, she watches …
Count the Ways (Linda Godfrey)
My Grandmother’s Rifle Reading at the breakfast table, I turn to the book pages and there’s a complaint from a reviewer. Modern poetry is all about the small incidents from …
Four Oceans (Toby Davidson)
Turn Back You have come in the least of your free time to here, for no fit reason and against the predominantly unconscious wishes of reasonable people. They would have …