Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) announced today that Meanjin will cease publication after its final issue in December 2025. This is a matter of deep regret for all at MUP, as Meanjin has reac…| Meanjin
On the first day after the cows disappear, I swing both feet onto the earth and set the Trojan against Naffy’s stump.| Meanjin
I took a shower that first night because the bathtub was filled with packing peanuts.| Meanjin
Webster’s argument in The Slip is that the forces of grief and desire are irremediably peculiar.| Meanjin
David Stavanger’s The Drop Off makes light of an unfortunate and consuming life situation taking place in a degrading world dominated by climate change and capitalism.| Meanjin
Reviewed: The Bearcat, Georgia Rose Phillips, Picador Jesus is back and he’s a white woman in Mount Dandenong—at least, this was the self-proclamation made by real-life cult leader Anne Hamilton-Byrne at the centre of Georgia Rose Phillips’ debut novel The Bearcat. Amid societal obsession with true crime, the source material promises a gripping read: illegally adopted children, LSD microdosing, an impending apocalypse and the rise of a blonde ‘master race’—this was the mission ...| Meanjin
Reviewed: Saturation, William Lane, Transit Lounge Saturation is a science fiction novel by William Lane—not the William Lane who, inspired by Edward Bellamy’s socialist utopian novel Looking Backward, moved to Paraguay to settle a New Australia. Instead, this particular William Lane is a contemporary author who has written about an imagined ‘new Australia’, which might be understood as a dystopia. Here, readers tend to expect an exaggeration of the state’s negative qualities, an...| Meanjin
Join us at 6 for a 6:30pm start tonight, Wednesday 25 June, for the launch of Meanjin 84.2 Winter 2025! Rug up, readers! Meanjin launches start manifesto-style in the Readings laneway. Wear your favourite coat and prepare to be moved— · Claire G. Coleman will read from her essay ‘Big Incel Energy’ · Sophie Finlay will read her poem ‘The Anthropocene is a geological epoch’ · Thirangie Jayatilake will read her poem ‘Fissures’ Then, come inside with us as Ouyang Yu, t...| Meanjin
In Worthy of the Event, Australian trans elder Vivian Blaxell has no easy answers.| Meanjin
Reviewed: Margery Kempe, Robert Glück, NYRB In the final chapter of Margery Kempe, Robert Glück reduces his novel to four words: ‘Exult, exasperate, abandon, amaze.’ (Italics his.) This is no spoiler. These words appear repeatedly throughout the novel as anchors, suspending readers in intense moments of uncertainty and wonder. Glück’s novel is a retelling of The Book of Margery Kempe (translated by Barry Windeatt from Middle English in 1986), thought to be the first English-langu...| Meanjin
To write about a year in dance would be impossible without talking about that dance.| Meanjin
