Editorial Rebecca Starford

COMMENTARY

Meaning-of-Life Type Stuff: The Survival of Australian Bookshops Matthia Dempsey
Warm and Dubby: An Endangered Species Mark Hewitt
Death by a Thousand Cuts: My Father’s Long-Term Drinking Emilie Collyer
An Alien in Tasmania: Culture and Nature on the Island Greg Foyster
‘I’m No Style Maven or Party Person!’: Blogging and Australia’s Next Top Model Petra Starke
A Peanut-Cruncher’s Defence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes S. A. Jones
Being Ecotarian: The Complexity of Food Cristy Clark
Not Art, You Say?: In Defence of Videogames Daniel Golding
The Queen of Muckraking: The Journalism of Jessica Mitford Annie Stevens

CARTOON by Jenny Nestor

FICTION

Carver’s Unmade Bed Patrick Cullen
The Architect Sonja Dechian
Happiness and Longevity Eva Lomski

INTERVIEW

Kill Your Darlings in conversation with Geoff Dyer

REVIEWS

Giddy and Tingling All Over: Revisiting The Professionals Fiona Scott-Norman
All That Glitters: Decoding the Edward Cullen Effect Margot McGovern

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