Issue #19

• Peter Simpson on studying Colin McCahon. >>Is this the promised land? 

• Rebecca Solnit on the myth of the art monster. 

• Meet C.K. Stead. >>You have a lot to lose.

• "Literature can foster and express our shared humanity." 

• Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo on contextualising history. 

• Love letters from Tove Jansson. 

• A story by Esther Kinsky. 

• Conjuring the smelly giant. >>The book!

• How women are changing the face of publishing in Africa. 

• Some American poets. 

• A Bloomsday quiz!

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