Australia

Carving Our Canoes: On the Value of Building a Communal Life in an Atomized World

Tyson Yunkaporta Considers the Possibilities and Limits of Indigenous Knowledge For Relieving Contemporary Malaise

 
By Tyson Yunkaporta  February 6, 2025
Adventurers

After Australia: Robyn Davidson on Discovering Her Next Adventure

By Robyn Davidson  December 7, 2023
Historical Fiction

Raising the Dead from Paper: Katharine Quarmby on Fiction’s Friendly Ghosts

By Katharine Quarmby  October 16, 2023
Australian Literature

Domestic Yet Universal: Rumaan Alam on Helen Garner’s The Children’s Bach

By Rumaan Alam  October 10, 2023
Queer History

Yes, Sydney, Australia in the 1960s Was the Drag Capital of the World

By Craig Seligman  March 3, 2023
Childhood

An Ode to the Milk Bar of My Childhood

By Madelaine Lucas  March 24, 2022
The Hub

Australian teens bombarded Ocean Vuong on Instagram after his writing showed up on their exams.

By Corinne Segal  November 10, 2021
Drinking

A Scotsman: Why I Love Getting Drunk on Cocktails in America

By Daniel Sloss  October 13, 2021
Trees

Encountering One of the Most Toxic Trees in the World

By Meg Lowman  August 10, 2021
In Conversation

Vulnerability Never Ends: Madeleine Watts on Coming-of-Age Amidst Climate Catastrophe

By Madelaine Lucas  April 21, 2021
Emergence Magazine

Alexis Wright on the Inward Migration of Apocalyptic Times

By Emergence Magazine  February 12, 2021
End Times

The Long Goodbye: Reconciling with the End of Nature

By Madeleine Watts  January 14, 2021
New Books Network

Kathleen Jennings on the Grim Genre of the Australian Gothic

By New Books Network  November 13, 2020
Anthropology

Barry Lopez: Love in a
Time of Terror

By Barry Lopez  August 7, 2020
Feminism

Arrested For Wearing a Bathing Suit: Life as an Early Female Swimmer

By Howard Means  June 29, 2020
End Times

On the Resolute Nihilism of a True End Times Classic

By Liam Pieper  June 11, 2020
Anthropology

On the Storylines That Kept Early Humans Alive

By Gaia Vince  February 10, 2020
Climate Change

Battling the False Narratives Around Australia’s Devastating Bushfires

By Jennifer Mills  January 22, 2020
The Hub

Jonathan Franzen was right: cats are terrible (especially for Australia’s bushfire tragedy).

By Jessie Gaynor  January 15, 2020
Climate Change

Beast Evolving: Fiction from the Australian Bushfires

By Ben Walter  January 13, 2020
The Hub

As Australia burns, writers seek to help those fighting the fires.

By Jonny Diamond  January 6, 2020
Class

Unearthing the Stories of Australia’s Working Class

By Enza Gandolfo  December 18, 2019
Celebrities

Body Language: On Kylie Minogue, Cancer, and Coming Back to Life

By Oliver Reeson  December 11, 2019
Classic Novels

On the Unpublished Ending of Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Other Mysteries

By Romy Ash  November 15, 2019
Reading Women

On the Reclamation of Australian Aboriginal and Native American Identity

By Reading Women  September 18, 2019
Addiction

On Attempting to Deal With Addiction Through Books

By Chris Fleming  September 13, 2019
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