


Are you WOMAN enough for Bitch Planet?
Leigh Nicholson takes a trip to an intergalactic penal colony and reviews Bitch Planet, an exploitation comic without the misogyny.


Can Touch This (An Hour of Touching in review)
William Edwards discovered that touching means two things, then laboured the pun.

Sandstone Bigotry
Shareeka Helaluddin reviews the toothless, but necessary, Dear White People.



Photo File, a new poem by Clive James
Photo File The photographs in the manila folder Are all of me when I was strong and bolder, But now I’m old, and illness makes me older, And winter’s coming and the nights grow colder. This photograph is me when I was swimming At Inverell and sent the pebbles skimming Across the river. Now my eyes…

Sydney Writers’ Festival presents John Darnielle: Wolf in White Van
John Darnielle is considered one of the greatest living songwriters. Louisa Studman explores his move from song to narrative.

Reserve Life
Just outside Walgett is Gindie reserve. In the dry heat of Thursday afternoon we were able to speak with local Elders and find someone to take us there. Anne Dennis, a Councillor of the New South Wales Aboriginal Lands Council, crammed four students into the back of her car and crossed the bridge of the Barwon River towards the reserve.