'A memory isn’t a stable artefact, it’s an experience carved from a sea of empirical data to try and prove a rule: if x, then y, because z, and z, and z. We maintain these moments tangentially, relationally, “As long as... not as possible, but as is willed by interested parties.”
'Learning to tell the stories that serve us best necessitates the loss of stories we told before; this negotiation is inherent to narrative. Our brains respond to new data, reconfigure the hierarchy of information, reconstruct the narrative, and move on. A narrative demands that we don’t keep everything.' (Jini Maxwell Editorial introduction)
Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Geoengineering: How to fall in love with your snow globe world by Dulaney, Michael
On the problem of white men (in a 'postmodern' world) by Mark Dean
A conversation with Leslie Jamison by Madelaine Lucas
Big beautiful female theory by Eloise Grills
It is once again the summer of my discontent and this is how we do it by Hanif Abdurraqib
You got the keys keys keys an ODE to Dj Khaled by Marwa Helal
To renounce awe in something large is to make the large thing touchable by Helal, Marwa; Abdurraqib, Hanif
Ehmit or owing to the failure of by Zoe Comyns
Brow by numbers by Vanessa Gron
Grace God by Diane Williams
Consuming homonyms for desirable traits by Nancy Lee
Mothers by Kim Yi-Seol and translated by Janet Hong
'The Yabba, 1971. My genesis is a panorama of nothing on some faraway blasted plain where the closest thing to life is the way vision warps in the heat. I’d be lying if I were to tell you I remembered anything before this desolation. Who is at home nowhere? This isn't a riddle, it's a failure of imagination.' (Introduction)
