AustLit

'When Robina Haines answered a knock at the door to find two police officers with hats in their hands, a veil of grief descended upon her.' 

'In the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, five gaunt young women — strangers to each other — presented at a Manhattan hospital with the same symptoms: their throats were constricted and they couldn't swallow.'  (Introduction)

'Going Down, premiering at the Sydney Theatre Company this month, is the tale of a young woman who is trying to tell her story honestly, failing miserably and getting very confused along the way.'  (Introduction)

'Tim Winton's latest book, The Shepherd's Hut, opens with a quote from American poet Liam Rector's Song Years — "Change is hard and hope is violent".'  (Introduction)

'Mention the modern-day Australian film industry and you'll likely elicit a groan as frames of the same actors performing cliché roles, safe plotlines and token ideology flick through the mind with stop motion predictability.' (Introduction)

'Four years after backlash shut down the original staging of the play, David Finnigan's Kill Climate Deniers has now opened in Sydney.' (Introduction)