What are the possibilities and pitfalls of imagining a better future?
Griffith Review 73: Hey, Utopia! explores the ramifications of Thomas More's term in a range of contexts: the possible and the improbable, the out of reach and almost realised.
When I was taught history as a primary and secondary student, it was as though Australia sprang into being when James Cook sighted a beach in 1770. An easy date to remember with all those sevens, I had thought, supposing ‘history’ to be largely about the memorisation of facts.
In our latest Through the Window, writer and teacher Brendan James Murray warns against the bleaching of our history.
'We drive from Pueblo to Limon as the sun rises: gory and golden, a puckered hole punch in a wet weakening sky. Cassie turns the radio up. We sing along: chic punk, baby country, pop hits. The highway is lined with corn.'
Read the story that won this year's Young Writers Award: 'Sun queens' by Ellen Vickerman.
It’s a liminal space, my heartplace: suspended between the magical, imaginative other-worlds I’ve inhabited since a child and the shimmering, tangible space of Australia’s Snowy Mountains.
In our latest Through the Window, Jonica Newby reflects on how we fall in love with place.
Is it pointless to write once more that things are a terrible mess? It would be good if we could write instead, or as well: here is the path to fix it. To write, yes, our house is on fire but also, here is the fire exit or – even better! And if only! – here comes the fire brigade.
In our latest Through the Window, Jane Rawson asks why we write about climate change.
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