Magazines and Journals

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ARCHER MAGAZINE #14 - the GROWING UP issue

Welcome to Archer Magazine: the GROWING UP issue.

"Growing up isn’t just about popping pimples and trying new things. Growing up is about finding a better world, confronting the realities of life and realising the people in power are incompetent. Growing up is about disappointment, guilt, community, love, and recognising privilege and systematic oppression. Growing up is about creating your space." - Lucy Watson, editor-in-chief

This special edition of Archer Magazine (our biggest yet) features a series of articles on growing and discovering, to help us all find our way, regardless of our age.

This issue includes a BONUS fold-out poster by the genius @Pink_Bits!
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Imprint: ARCHER
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Membranes - porous biological interfaces which regulate flows between one zone and another - are the foundational image for an issue guest-edited by Granta contributor and best-selling novelist Rana Dasgupta. Featuring new poetry from Andrew McMillan and Tishani Doshi, photography from Ruchir Joshi, Arturo Soto Gutierrez, Monica de la Torre and Anita Khemka, as well as cutting-edge fiction and thought-provoking essays: Fatin Abbas on the border between Sudan and South Sudan Lydia Davis on faultlines in families Mark Doty on homelessness in New York City Anouchka Grose on infidelity and the idea of the unwanted third Daisy Hildyard on membranes in the human body Adam Jasper on Christian Enzensberger and 'smut' Kapka Kassabova on lakes and Europe Anita Roy on the newt Eyal Weizman on contemporary architectural strategies for repelling and dividing people

Imprint: GRANTA
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Is empathy, like water, in increasingly short supply?

Now more than ever we need empathy, and Griffith Review 70: Generosities of Spirit explores and celebrates generosities and kindnesses, those uplifting and memorable experiences that illuminate our lives. Featuring inspiring despatches from the frontlines of generosity - stories that delve into the transformative power of the positive in our everyday world - this edition also presents the winners of the Novella Project VIII, alongside exciting new short fiction and non-fiction, and a stunning collection of new Australian poetry.

As well as offering perfect holiday reading, Griffith Review 70: Generosities of Spirit introduces The Elemental Summer, a timely new print and online series that will follow the climate emergency through the 2020-2021 summer, whatever it brings.

Contributors include Claire G Coleman, Thomas Mayor, Kristina Olsson, Adam Thompson, Kate Veitch, Mikele Prestia, Joelle Gergis, Rhianna Boyle, Allanah Hunt, Linda Neil and more. This edition is published with the support of the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund and McLean Foundation.

Imprint: Griffith Review
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Ask yourself this: What state am I in? And how much is it a reaction to the state of the world today? Griffith Review 72: States of Mind examines the ways we think about our psychological, existential and political condition. Anxiety and depression are on the rise in Australia and across the globe. Digital media has created a pandemic of loneliness and disconnection – even before the other pandemic arrived. Ideological extremism is widening our divisions and threatening our democracies. And all the while, the wellness industry is spinning everything from mindfulness to minimalism into big business. How do these forces help or hinder our psychological equilibrium? What salves do we seek for our own survival or simply to make ourselves feel better, from medical interventions to personal reinventions? How can we ensure the sustainability and effectiveness of our mental health responses – from policy and pharmacy through to prevention? And what does this mean for the years that lie ahead? Griffith Review 72: States of Mind explores the parameters of our cognitive landscapes through the prisms of the personal, the psychological, the philosophical and more.

Imprint: Griffith Review
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We are always excited when we publish Island, but perhaps even more so with this next issue. After being unsuccessful in achieving a renewal of multi-year grant funding from Arts Tasmania, it seemed unlikely that the magazine would survive 2019, let alone 2020. But due to an anonymous private benefactor, a matched once-only government grant and some individual donors, we were able to start work on the 2020 publishing schedule (albeit reduced to two issues instead of the normal four). The global pandemic has certainly added some extra challenges, but here we are, about to publish issue 159, the first of our two 2020 issues!

We cannot express how grateful we are to everyone who has made this possible – our funding, design and advertising partners, our donors, our contributors and our readers.

This is the first issue put together by our refreshed editorial team of Anna Spargo-Ryan (nonfiction), Ben Walter (fiction), Lisa Gorton (poetry) and Judith Abell (art features). We are thrilled to have them on board. They bring such enthusiasm, energy and commitment to their task, and have delivered selections that are richly diverse and worthy.

Here you’ll find poems about fires, bodies, art and violence – including some that recall the summer’s fires and others that resonate with the confinement of these isolated days. You’ll also find thoughtful essays about the arts in this time of crisis, but also about ideas as important now as ever, such as togetherness, curiosity, love and the deep solace to be found in nature. There’s fresh, funny, clever and shocking fiction here that will take you on a dizzying ride through far-flung hotel rooms (how distant they seem right now!), the comic drama of suburban renovations, the strange world of the workplace and the bizarre one of reality TV crime drama, the mysteries of childhood, and one of the darkest great-aunts you’ll ever meet. As always, our art features enrich the issue, and this time they coalesce around various sites and forms of tragedy and extinction – from Julie Gough’s Tense Past, to Lucienne Rickard’s Extinction Studies and Selena de Carvalho’s Beware of Imposters (the secret life of flowers) – all of them urging us to attend to what has been lost and what can yet be lost.

We hope that these voices will inspire, entertain and comfort you in our uncertain and vulnerable times.

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We hope you’ll enjoy exploring this bumper issue, which includes writing from the University of Wollongong’s ‘Blue Ecologies’ creative writing and research group along with other related works chosen by guest editor Luke Johnson and selections by Island’s editorial team. A long-planned collaboration between Island and Australian Plays has yielded three co-commissioned ‘playlets’ – tiny jewels on our watery theme. We also bring you the Emerging Tasmanian Aboriginal Writers Award (organised by TasWriters), the winner of the 2020 Olga Masters Short Story Prize (organised by SouthEast Arts) and another inspiring ‘literacy journey’ from Connect42. This Island is not an island.


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Issue 45 of The Lifted Brow: essays, fiction, translations, commentary, criticism, poetry, and as always so many pages of comics and illustrations.

With cover art by Michael Fikaris, Issue 45 of The Lifted Brow includes:

** An adaptation of Nic Holas' Brow Talk about how far we have come in depathologising but not depoliticising our sex lives, guest edited by TLB founder Ronnie Scott;

** Georgia Mill elucidates the invisible but entrenched barriers to queer parenthood in Australia;

** An exploratory essay from Tess Pearson that pieces together language and the body after pregnancy;

** Kate Scardifield with an experimental essay on limbs, detachment, and the instinct to collect and categorise;

** Aurora Scott with a lyric essay on islands, rocks, isolation and attention;

** Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn writing on breaking the silence in the mining industry and why it is so hard to be heard;

** An excerpt from Eloise Grills' upcoming Brow Books publication big beautiful female theory;

** Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, translated by Erin Goodman, with a story that peers through the screen and finds the other side wanting; plus an interview between author and translator on work, intimacy, and the soundtrack to it all;

** Punchy dystopic fiction from Kang Young-Sook, translated by Janet Hong, on contagion and the bonds that hold us;

** A prose poem from Rosmarie Waldrop that scrutinises semantics;

** Poetry from Georgia Kartas, Panda Wong, and Jason Phu;

** columns: Antonia Pont’s tour-de-force ‘Thinking Feeling’ column about the ethics and micro-dynamics of leadership; Jana Perkovic’s column ‘The Critic’ reflects on Exit Strategies, and the complex work of leaving; and Benjamin Law and his mum Jenny Phang’s famous ‘Law School’ sex+relationships advice column;

** A new ‘By Numbers’ feature by Panda Wong that uses numerical data to investigate the world of trees;

and new comics and visual art by April Phillips, Anya Davidson, Wakana Yamazaki, Mary Leunig, Can Yalcinkaya, Ashley Ronning, Angelica Roache-Wilson, Humyara Mahbub, Shae San Sim, Emma Davidson, Zanem Zlemeša, Ben Constantine, Emilie Walsh, Christine Obst, Tom Groenestyn, and Oscar Nimmo.

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March 2021

Voice at a crossroads
By Megan Davis

Koori hearings
By Jenan Taylor

The bin fire of the humanities
By Judith Brett

Red alert
By Richard Cooke

The changing climate of risk
By Patrick Lau

The composition of emotion: Rose Riebl
By Zoë Morrison

Pride and prejudice: ‘It’s a Sin’
By Dion Kagan

Drawn to the drift: Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’
By Shane Danielsen

Listening to country: ‘Fractures & Frequencies’ and ‘Infractions’
By Anwen Crawford

Imprint: Black Inc.
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Issue #027: Family Matters

Tales of brothers feuding, often ending with one committing fratricide, are unsettlingly common in mythology. Set murdered Osiris, Romulus killed Remus, and Oedipus’s sons Eteocles and Polynices killed each other. More recently, and less imaginatively, Adolf and Rudolf Dassler (of Adidas and Puma fame respectively) and Sterling and Stephen Clark (heirs to the Singer sewing machine fortune) turned their backs on one another, over money.

Imprint: NEW PHILOSOPHER MAGAZINE
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