Kristin Cast’s House of Night series has an interesting premise: what if the tarot deck were alive, and an adult fantasy ...
The end of the beginning. It’s a phrase that sounds like a finish but isn’t one, and that’s exactly the shape of semester’s end. Thirteen weeks, done. At least some readings read. But it only looks ...
In the year following my disabling COVID infection, I made it to less than 30 per cent of my classes. Despite my keenest interests in the content of my classes, it was physically impossible to attend.
Do you remember where you were in 2019? I was in high school, watching Sam Levinson’s Euphoria. I was the target audience, working through feelings about my own drug use, being sort of fat, sort of ...
Daniel Hahn opened the panel by asking the writers what their first exposure was to translated media and what awakened their awareness to the fact of works existing in translation. Matt Alt, a ...
The United Nations (UN) has delivered a scathing assessment of Australia’s treatment of Indigenous children in the criminal justice system, warning that the extreme overrepresentation of Aboriginal ...
If you’ve ever seen a healthy Tasmanian reef, then you would know that kelp turns the seafloor into a moving forest. To paint ...
At this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival panel Radical Hope, hope was centered around its emotional affect rather than a calculated, deliberate act of resistance. Hosted by James Bradley and featuring ...
For regional Australians, the budget is a national cost-of-living response in which regional households are repeatedly identified as the largest beneficiaries, combined with a set of regional and ...
A recent report by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has found that current University of Sydney (USyd) Vice-Chancellor Mark Scott “failed to act” upon corrupt conduct within the ...
There is perhaps no sentence more capable of producing simultaneous admiration and existential dread in university students than the phrase “thrilled to announce.” Thrilled to announce I have accepted ...