‘all it took was a spark’ / ‘modern day monster’ (Prose)
“It was the secrets of the heaven and Earth that I desired to learn”.
#SaveUWAP: WA Universities and Internationalism
This week, it was announced by UWA’S Deputy Vice Chancellor Tayyeb Shah that UWA Publishing (UWAP) will be closed, beginning…
#MeToo Review: Stories from the Australian movement
If what you know of the #MeToo movement is mainly stories from white Hollywood celebrities, you’re not alone. What most…
What’s a Mid Years, Anyway?
One morning in June I was sitting on a balcony in Geordie Bay admiring the Rotto sunrise. The sun had…
Remembering the Destroyed Past: Everything Flows Review
Content Warning: Genocide, Holodomor, Famine, Stalinism Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman is a 1964 historiographical fiction about the wake left…
The Most Problematic Tropes in Young Adult Literature
*warning – spoilers ahead* “Okay? Okay.” – Augustus and Hazel, The Fault in our Stars “Remember we’re madly in love,…
Truth through Mediation: Reading Fiction with Dickinson and Hegel
The great 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson once wrote that one should “Tell the truth but tell it slant,”…
The Short Story: Arriving in Perth
Getting out of that cushioned chair was like easing out of five hours of inertia; the old fellow next door…
Love Letter to Leeming
The place where the sky is almost everywhere.