Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay brings her "signature dry wit and piercing psychological depth" (Harper's Bazaar) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2018.

This issue of Granta is about time and about ghosts – the ghosts of our past selves, the shadows of past injuries, the ghosts of history, the ghosts in the machine.     
André Aciman remembers Rome 
Ahmet Al... read more

Clementine Fordwonders whether the #MeToo movement represents a turning point for women, Anna Spargo-Ryan thinks not- 'In the wake of #MeToo, when women said 'this time it will be different', it wasn't.' Joumanah El Matrahpicks over the idea of religious freedom, Liz Conor r... read more

This wide-ranging essay collection serves as a covert memoir of a cult literary figure--New Yorkerwriter John McPhee.
John McPhee's The Patch is just that: patches of work across a writer's lifetime that come together to form a quilt of essays, reflections and reminiscences... read more

Brother, actor, Victorian of the Year and determined cancer vanquisher Samuel Johnson OAM has gathered together a collection of letters to Santa from some of Australia's most notorious and best-loved grown-ups. Surprising, entertaining, wicked and witty, this little book of letters i... read more

'A grisly treat' Financial Times on the podcast Based on the 'world's spookiest podcast' of the same name comes Unexplained: a book of ten real-life mysteries which might be best left unexplained. . .
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The writer's life ... it's not an easy one. In the autumn issue ofMeanjin Australian literary giant Frank Moorhousedescribes the often-difficult path followed by those hardy souls who take 'the writer's oath'. For the man behind Days of Wine and Rage, Forty Seventeen, Dark P... read more

New York Times best-selling author and renowned food critic Ruth Reichl selects the year's top food writing from those who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouth-watering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country.

Best-selling author of The Disappearing Spoon, The Violinist's Thumb, and more, Sam Kean, selects the year's top science and nature writing, looking for writers who balance research with humanity and in the process uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines.

The Pulitzer-Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing "the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender" (New York Times) to the task.

March Meanjin features the Nauru Diaries of former Royal Navy doctor Nick Martin. What he found in the Australian detention centre 'was way more traumatic than anything I'd seen in Afghanistan'. You'll also read Paul Daley on Indigenous history, statues and strange commemora... read more

Hope is at the heart of South Australia. More than any other state it has shaped its own destiny with large doses of vision and optimism. It has been less frightened of 'the vision thing' and demonstrated willingness to challenge prevailing sentiments, experimen... read more