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Thank you for the outpouring of support over the past few days, and for the memories being shared.
The complete Meanjin archive will be put online and made available for free from February 2026. In the meantime, current print and digital subscribers continue to have full access to it. (1 of 2)
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A new Meanjin has arrived on my desk at the exact historical conjuncture most needed (aka always, aka now) @meanjin.bsky.social
24.06.2025 05:53 —
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Big Incel Energy
Writing a piece on the energy in the Trump administration is like trying to write fiction in the apocalypse: you can’t create anything more insane than the real world. Every time I write about some…
"In Elon, incel or incel-adjacent members of the manosphere who live lonely lives without prospects finally get to imagine that they have political leaders: powerful people they can admire and aspire to be."
Big Incel Energy in @meanjin.bsky.social
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18.06.2025 04:23 —
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Meanjin cover Winter 2025
Meanjin Winter 2025
Table of contents
Mind-numbing sleep-woking
Lucy Hamilton
The word 'woke' is tiresome. More though, it's a cliché that terminates our ability to debate. In Australian civic discourse, and internationally, the word is used to demarcate lines of battle. In 2025, Australian politicians are hoping it can turn a motley coalition of voters into the government's base.
Woke emerged as a concept in US Black culture in the 1920s to signal people who were aware of how the system trapped them in disadvantage.
Later, progressives borrowed (stole?) the label to celebrate that awareness more broadly, with regard to varied subjects like human rights for minorities, women, workers and refugees. By 2020.
the term had becom
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Excited to announce another essay in @meanjin.bsky.social , and this time I’m right up the front.
People across the spectrum get worked up about “woke”. On the Right, they’ve invented an inchoate enemy that can serve any need. Centre & Left can deride it as trivial or corrosive. #Meanjin
18.06.2025 04:42 —
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Meanjin launch: Winter 2025
Join us and writers, readers, and poets to launch Meanjin 84.2. Meanjin launches start manifesto-style in the Readings laneway, before heading inside. Wear your favourite coat and prepare to be moved...
We are launching Winter 2025 on 25 June!
At Readings Carlton, with Claire G. Coleman, Sophie Finlay, Thirangie Jayatilake, and a special conversation with Ouyang Yu and Cher Tan.
This one is not to miss.
12.06.2025 01:34 —
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Complete a Meanjin survey for a chance to win $200 worth of books!
Hello, dear Meanjin reader! It’s that time of year again for us to get in touch with our readers to find out how we’re doing. What do you like? What don’t you like? What would you…
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Dutton: a catalogue of falsehoods
A Coalition senator was in the middle of a debate about foreign policy when he let a fundamental truth drop. ‘Cognitive science indicates a thing called the illusory truth effect—that if you say it…
“A Coalition senator… let a fundamental truth drop.
‘Cognitive science indicates a thing called the illusory truth effect—that if you say it often enough, people will start to believe it’…”
‘Dutton: A catalogue of falsehoods’ by @danielhurst.bsky.social meanjin.com.au/essays/dutto...
02.05.2025 09:35 —
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Thou shalt not covet thy prime minister’s property
It was not Anthony Albanese’s beach house we resented, but the intergenerational inequity his government is unwilling to address. ‘As a prime minister, I earn a good income. I understand tha…
“For young people today, buying a home without help or inheritance has become something of a Sisyphean task (it is worth noting I fall into the latter camp)…”
‘Thou shalt not covet thy prime minister’s property’ by @rachelwithers.bsky.social meanjin.com.au/essays/thou-...
02.05.2025 09:33 —
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The Gambling Evil
There is always an appetite. It is now the gambling corporations that seek to mould everyone in their own image. They might yet be reined in.
Timely weekend reading from our latest edition, Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025—
“It fell to the current Australian Parliament to consider new laws to meet new problems, even while the world was changing around us…”
‘The Gambling Evil’ by Andrew Lemon meanjin.com.au/essays/the-g...
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Where to Now?
‘You know Melbourne was at one stage slated to go by the name of Batman. We’d be Batmanians by now.’
and Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn reviews Batmanians by Sammy Oravec:
'Guided by star signs and SSRIs, Oravec’s dreamy, shambolic prose merges individual narratives into a collective hallucination.'
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02.04.2025 03:28 —
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The Big Chill in Mornington
When people break from their everyday routines, something unresolved or unwanted often emerges.
New reviews on the Meanjin Daily!
First, @dionkagan.bsky.social reviews Time Together by Luke Horton @lukehorton.bsky.social / @scribepub.bsky.social.
'Holidays are rarely an escape from trouble and relational tension, but more often magnify them.'
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02.04.2025 03:26 —
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We are launching on Wurundjeri country on 26 March!
FEAT. @rachelwithers.bsky.social, Suma Narayan, @lucysussex.bsky.social, @jessielilley.bsky.social and Raeden Richardson!
Book at Readings (free!) here — www.readings.com.au/events/meanj...
20.03.2025 04:00 —
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OUT NOW!
Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025!
Energy and life and the body. Disappointment and passion and pride. The inexorable labour of working toward the just.
Subscribe now at meanjin.com.au, and don't miss our launch events!
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Cover reveal!
The work of desire, the work of identity, the work of standing still. The work of giving life, the work of telling truth, the work of making a home.
This season, Meanjin’s writers are calling us to account.
Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025 is out on 19 March.
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Best of Australian reading in 2024
Meanjin writers share their favourite books of 2024.
What a year for Australian literature!
In the latest for Meanjin Daily, a selection of Meanjin writers shared their favourite books of 2024.
Read on — meanjin.com.au/latest/best-...
12.02.2025 01:08 —
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Welcome aboard, @meanjin.bsky.social!
06.02.2025 03:38 —
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Hello, dear Reader, and welcome, Subscriber! Embrace Australia’s finest writers: subscribe to Meanjin. Subscribe to Meanjin Quarterly in print: Our print subscription options include: Multi-…
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