Meanjin 2019 Vol 78 No 2 Winter by Jonathan Green

Meanjin 2019 Vol 78 No 2 Winter Reviews

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  Belinda Rule

  I'm in this one. :)
• 
  Avril

  So strange to be reading this some 9 months late; there are a few articles (Katharine Murphy's, Shaun Micallef's, the editorial) that assume an ALP win in the 2019 election. Didn't happen.
• 
  Highlyeccentric

  Bought this in hard copy, having accepted that I actually really hate reading Meanjin online.
  
  Of note:
  
  Katherine Murphy's
  'What Happens Next', on how to 'save politics'. Notable for its obvious but naive assumption that Labor would probably win the 2019 election.
  
  Alexis Wright,
  A journey in writing place. I want an anthology of Wright's essays on narrative and literature, they're incredibly good.
  
  Benjamin Wilkie,
  Menzies, Scotland and the Australian liberals - argues for a strong influence of 'Scottishness' on Australian neo-liberalism in its infancy (alongside the strong presence of working-class Scots-descended Australians in the union movement).
  
  Ben Pobjie,
  The Saving Grace of Captivity, on zoos.
  
  Tanya Vavilova,
  The problem with everything (me and you), a memoir piece on queer dating, trauma, and much more.
  
  Melanie Cheng,
  All the other stories, a memoir about memoir-writing. I was thinking about this when I (unplanned) attended a NYWF event on privacy and ethics in memoir writing, with all-white panellists.
  
  Karen Wyld, review essay, And still the birds sing - reviews recent indigenous fiction.
  
  Jeff Sparrow, review essay,
  Nostalgia for a working class.
  
  Ruby Hamad, review essay,
  The forming of our modern notions, on the racialisation of sex difference.