Bear Season
On bears; feral women and weird fiction; novels about grief and the climate crisis; and too many books.
Catriona Menzies-Pike
Writer and editor at large. SYD -> YVR.
arts funding
Feedback loops
Something to say about cultural policy? Make it snappy
meanjin
Returning Home
Fingers crossed for editorial independence: Meanjin, LARB, Michael Silverblatt
Hard surfaces
Cancel culture strikes again? Adelaide Writers' Week, risk management, and our de facto national cultural policy settings
new reviews
Books in Crisis
On the books we don't need about Bondi
australian literature
Pumpkin Season
Miscellaenous texts, occasional writings, anthologies, beefs, trauma, birds
australian literature
So long, Meanjin
Meanjin down the drain, criticism still in crisis – plus Wuthering Heights and a withering review
Help Wanted
What they left out of the position description for the boss job at Writing Australia – plus John Jeremiah Sullivan, Jennifer Mills, Andrew Dean and Mel Brooks
Boundless Risk
On creative business models, risk, and the Unbound fiasco
cancel culture
Back from the beyond
Two elections, Cancel culture or bust, Art to put you to sleep
Newsletter
So long, Substack
Gotta bounce, there's too much Elon in the air
A haunting debut
Here I am, taking Ghost for a test-drive. This is the new home of the newsletter formerly located here.