Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
Category: Essays
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 91: Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS by Micheline Lee
Category: Essays
What ails the NDIS? In this powerful essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a transformative social change that ran into problems. For some users it has been an "oasis in the desert," but for others it has meant still more exclusion. Lee explains how a ...Show more
Griffith Review 82: Animal Magic
Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Whether it’s man’s best friend or the king of the jungle, animals occupy a central place in our social, emotional and cultural lives. We’re happy as clams or pigs in mud; we hold our horses or take a lion’s share of what we want; we avoid the elephant in the room or try not to open a can of worms. Anima ...Show more
Blindness: October 7 and the Left - Jewish Quarterly 256 by Hadley Freeman
Category: Essays
This issue of The Jewish Quarterly explores the response of the left to the Hamas attacks in Israel of October 7 and the willingness of progressives to abandon values that they purport to represent. In this crucial essay, author and columnist Hadley Freeman examines the equivocations, contortions and hy ...Show more
Time to Reboot : Feminism in the Algorithm Age by Carla Wilshire
Category: Essays | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Technology is radically transforming society. From social media to artificial intelligence, our world is now governed by algorithms, powerful tools that not only predict human behaviour but affect how we look at each other, and ourselves. At the same time, we are seeing hard-fought-for women’s rights be ...Show more
On Kim Scott : Writers on Writers by Tony Birch
Category: Essays
'I value Kim Scott's fiction so highly because I feel that his approach is to put the flags aside. That Deadman Dance asks us not to consider who we were so much as who we could be, collectively, in the future.'Noongar writer Kim Scott has won the Miles Franklin Award twice for his novels. In this movin ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 93: Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics by Lech Blaine
Category: Essays
Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogation of the Australian suburbs and the people who live there. 2022 saw the splintering of the Liberal Party's electoral coalition. Influential conservatives have urged Peter Dutton to forget about the seats l ...Show more
Griffith Review 80 Creation Stories by Culver Carody
Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The capacity to tell stories — along with language and the ability to create art — is seen as both intrinsic and unique to the human species. Over thousands of years, we’ve forged narratives of our origins, our journeys and our dreams as a means of accounting for who we are and to define our place in th ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 92: The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It by Alan Kohler
Category: Essays
What caused Australia's housing crisis - and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney's median house price is the second most exp ...Show more
Manifesto - Three Classic Essays on How to Change the World by Rosa. Luxemburg; Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels; Ernesto Che Guevara; Adrienne Rich (Preface by)
Category: Essays | Series: The\Che Guevara Library
The three texts this book, all written in vastly different eras -The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Marx and Engels, Reform or Revolution (1899) by Rosa Luxemburg and Socialism and Man in Cuba (1965) by Ernesto Che Guevara-illuminate socialist ideas of the 19th and 20th centuries. For a new generation o ...Show more
Griffith Review 83 Past Perfect
Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The past, famously, is a foreign country — but in the twenty-first century, it’s one in which we increasingly seek solace. No matter the relentless pace of technological innovation and the digitisation of everything from money to media – our appetites for retro design and aesthetics, for cultural produc ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 90: Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal by Megan Davis
Category: Essays
Why a First Nations Voice to Parliament is a 'constitutional moment' that offers a new vision of Australia. This essential Quarterly Essay seeks to do two things: to make the strongest, clearest possible case for the Voice to Parliament and to draw out the significance and the promise of this reform - ...Show more