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Juice and the politics of anxiety - Overland literary journal Recently longlisted for the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize, Tim Winton’s latest novel, Juice is not — as Winton himself and critics have described it — hopeful and a “creative projection of ‘wondering…’’”...

“When it comes to fiction, then, I am arguing that the anxiety that provoked the writing of Juice is incited by, not detached from, capitalism and power, and no less dangerous than what Winton describes as apathy.”

Daniel Ray on Tim Winton’s JUICE

Sadly amusing that it took Haaretz to pick up on this line by Albanese

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Kudelka from when Gillard's portrait was unveiled

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my fave of all time!

Every young person sentence online reads like this to me now:

"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"

Randa Abdel-Fattah, Discipline - This brilliant and profound novel dives deep into what it means to be a Muslim in Australia in our current traumatic times. Randa Abdel-...

What has got rather lost in all this: Disobedience by Randa Abdel-Fattah is by all accounts a great novel. Here, @peterdonoughue.bsky.social calls it "brilliant and profound". No wonder she gets programmed for writers festivals... notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2026/02/rand...

If you want to understand Australia’s housing crisis, look at what the government funds We are living through the worst housing crisis in living memory. Rents are surging, home ownership is slipping further out of reach, and homelessness is rising and more persistent.

"If you want to understand Australia’s housing crisis, look at what the government funds" by @maiyazize.bsky.social & James Hall for @thepointau.bsky.social

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It all began for me at this Capitol Theatre gig. What a show. I left it a changed man, too!
- sad news.

that concert, at Goat Island. Unbelievable. And his pink overalls - God he was cute!

The Great Silencing Last week it snowed heavily twice in Paris, turning the city into a frigid, monochrome fantasy land over three days, and at the weekend I popped into the Musée Marmottan Monet for a spot of impression...

Some thoughts on Adelaide Writers' Week and the moment we find ourselves in. It's all just so grinding. rick-morton.ghost.io/the-great-si...

a man dressed as a mime with white face paint and a red scarf ALT: a man dressed as a mime with white face paint and a red scarf

Tony Burke ;)

Another option might have been to let her turn up and talk about her novel.

yeah, but the lampshades...?

Would the last writer to withdraw from Adelaide Writers Week please turn off Amanda Vanstone. Thank you.

Statement: Jewish Council Condemns Adelaide Festival Removal of Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

Libraries, museums & festivals getting trashed by cuts & because so many boards now stacked with business people, ex-politicians, incompetents & toadies & one or no arts reps. More & more public & iconic cultural institutions have been taken over, charters abandoned; now being wrecked from the top.

It’s going to be an interesting few weeks when the royal commission examines, as I suspect it will, the defraying of social cohesion caused by the organised censorship of writers, artists and employees across the country for daring to speak against an unfolding genocide

Randa Abdel-Fattah’s response:

image shows a succinct and extremely favourable review of The Maskeys, published in the Sydney Morning Herald.

Between all the horror and rampant chicanery of late, you may have missed Cameron Woodhead's review of my little book, in the SMH. It's a beauty! #auslit #themaskeys

nice to find this on my feed this morning

Thicker than a Boxing Day shit

Best Australian movie EVER: 'Its hell in the mines - you want them to sing opera as well?'

Grass roots.
My @smh cartoon.

Havent been to Dungog for years. Was a regular visitor there in the 90's. Fond memories! Enjoy. : )

and, the great woman somehow made time to read my work #themaskeys pre-publication with the hope she might offer a blurb. She called it 'gloriously feral.'
Put that on my headstone!

One of my fave Bowie videos.

(and what the other guy said...)

Image of covers of books The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow, The Maskeys by Stuart Everly-Wilson, and Salt Upon the Water by Liz Dickens.

ICYMI this week's reviews:
Robert Goodman on Alix E Harrow's time-travel novel The Everlasting
Catherine Pardey on Stuart Everly-Wilson's crime family novel The Maskeys
Ann Skea on Lyn Dickens' novel of colonial South Australia, Salt Upon the Water
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#BookSky 💙 📚

Such a great review. Made my day. 🙏 Newtown Review of Books. #themaskeys

I’m 15 years old and have a disability. Social media has been a lifeline – why is the government kicking me off? | Ezra Sholl As I come to terms with life as a quadriplegic, Instagram and TikTok are a reminder I’m not alone

A whole lot of not thinking things through with this policy.

Pretty much assumes everyone is a middle-upper class white, straight teenager with no issues living in a city

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