Cirrus@Austlit

'Let us imagine for a moment that someone other than a member of the reactionary right had, on the official site of the media organisation for which they worked, publicly wished violent death on their ideological opponents.' (Introduction)

'While the photography in Tracey Moffatt’s exhibition at the Venice Biennale bears touches of the knowing melodrama of her early work, her film work comes with a disaffected Hollywood air. By Marcia Langton.' (Introduction)

'Artist Yhonnie Scarce captures the aftermath of Maralinga in her new exhibition Thunder Raining Poison. By Ellen van Neerven.'

'In 2007 Inga Simpson, not yet a successful novelist, is stuck on a wearying conference call when she first sees the cedar cottage that will change her life. It sits in a misty forest and is up for sale. Simpson and her partner, a writer known here as N, aren’t ready for their tree change, but many things in this memoir happen before the pair is ready; they meet challenges as opportunities, equally inspiring and frightening.' (Introduction)

'Wayne Macauley is an Australian original. He writes in a tradition of dystopian satire – associated most famously with George Orwell’s 1984 or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World – but in a stripped-back and absurdist style. His work is a mixture of Jonathan Swift, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka and J. M. Coetzee (in allegorical mode), though Macauley’s fictional worlds are always set in Melbourne or greater Victoria. The meaning or relevance of his dystopian satires are to be found locally too, in our country’s follies.' (Introduction)