Meanjin Vol 78 No 1

In the issue’s cover essay, ‘Queer and Now’, Adolfo Aranjuez writes on sexuality, gender and the trouble with pinning down a satisfactory, and true, sense of self. He settles on queer. ‘Queer is fallible but … it embodies the very illusory stability that it challenges. Non-binary … mongrel Asian, dual citizen, identity double bind-for me queer is coming home …’

Plus, in other non-fiction- Katharine Murphy, Henry Reynolds, Ruby Hamad, Tony Birch, Greg Melluish, Omar Sakr and more.

There’s Memoir from- Shu-Ling Chua, Na'ama Carlin, Joan Fleming, Shane Maloney and Indigo Perry.

New fiction from-
Nicholas Jose, Jennifer Mills, Lola Button, and Rafeif Ismail.

And Poetry from- Judith Beveridge, Simeon Kronenberg, Stephen Edgar, Pam Brown, Ashley Haywood, Sarah Day, Melinda Smith, David McCooey, and Madeleine Dale.

Plus-
Shaun Micallef gets lost in renovation.