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Nova Weetman (main picture) and partner Aidan Fennessy. Nova Weetman/Darren James (main image)

April 23, 2024

Nova Weetman lost her partner to cancer at the worst possible time. Her memoir blends hard-won wisdom with pure nostalgic joy

Edwina Preston, The University of Melbourne

Edwina Preston approaches Nova Weetman’s ‘generous and open’ grief memoir from a place of shared loss.

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May 11, 2023

Friday essay: cancellation or conflicted joy – grappling with the work of our ‘art monsters’

Zora Simic, UNSW Sydney

So many of our artistic geniuses have complicated legacies. What do we do with work we love by artists whose behaviour is more difficult to admire?

Breasts ‘barrel-rolling across Ezra’s howling mouth’? That joke isn’t funny anymore. Kandarya Mahadeva Temple, India. David Tubau

December 3, 2015

Sex is neither good nor bad, but writing makes it so

Jane Messer, Macquarie University

Yesterday, the British Literary Review awarded the 2015 Bad Sex in Fiction award to Morrissey. So what is it about sex writing that’s so difficult – and what’s the secret of writers who know how to seduce?

Legendary British singer Morrissey is well-known for his activist vegetarianism. AAP

August 3, 2011

Morrissey, Anders Breivik and the claim that all meat is murder

Lauren Rosewarne, The University of Melbourne

A qualification of how much I love Morrissey’s music needs to be made. Merely thinking about There is a Light cuts me raw; I adopted It’s Not Your Birthday Anymore as a power anthem the second I heard…

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