Meanjin 2016 Vol 75 No 3 Spring by Jonathan Green

Meanjin 2016 Vol 75 No 3 Spring Reviews

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  Avril

  I think what I enjoy most about Meanjin is the memoirs; those labeled as such and those in the Up Front and Meanjin Papers sections. I strongly resonated with Richard Chirgwin’s piece about the way in which depressed people are treated as fragile and protected from real life (it doesn’t help) and with Lauren Rosewarne’s essay on the lives of single women. But the latter made me aware that I may be a little strange. I have never felt at all embarrassed or awkward about eating alone at a restaurant or seeing a movie alone. I honestly do not care about “the optics of buying a single cinema ticket or booking a hotel room for one”. Does that make me weird?
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  Highlyeccentric

  I desperately awaited this arriving and it did not disappoint! The lead essay by Lauren Rosewarne on 'The Rise of the Single Woman' was much better than its short-excerpted SMH version. Greg Jericho's essay on politics, polling and data wonks was very interesting. (Both unavailable on public web, so no link) Melissa Howard's piece on
  the court of family violence was beautifully constructed. The fiction I was less enamoured with, this issue.
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  Mandy

  This latest issue of Meanjin is the usual mix of articles, fiction and essays and as always some of them I found more interesting than others. I never read it from cover to cover but pick and choose the items that interest me the most - and I invariably find something thought-provoking, informative or simply enjoyable, and this offering is no exception. My thanks to Meanjin itself for making this worthy journal available to me via NetGalley.