People Thinking Thoughts
- Nick Terrell
Flesh-hunger, football, old media, new media, death, grief, mourning, slow rebirth and clear-eyed remembering.
Springtime Meanjin is paying some close curatorial attention to our national iconography: Mark Mordue and Mary Callahan touch up Nick Cave’s sainted sheen, while Robert Connolly, Sophie Cunningham and Sian Prior try to renew our cultural memories of the Balibo Five. Read more
Where the Streets Have No Lanes
- David Free
Last Christmas I did a Sigrid Thornton and moved out of the city for what I hope is going to be ever. I’d like to say, for the sake of brevity, that I was inspired to do this by the Seachange TV show. But in truth I was more directly motivated by the lyrics of the Creedence song “Lookin’ Out My Back Door.” One day it suddenly struck me that unless I took radical action, I was never going to get to live in a house like the one described by John Fogerty in that song. Read more