Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

A new series of Literary Criticism.

“‘Wake Up Jeff!’ will see me to my grave, which I’m quite grateful for.”

Content from the State Library of New South Wales.

a poem by Yumna Kassab

Liminal stands in solidarity with artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino.

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“I don’t have the nerve to go back through the novel to examine its sentences; it would feel too close to being confronted with past crimes.”

“I’ve always had a dispute with narration, since it traps the reader in immersion, like a drowning dragonfly. (Are writers part of the entertainment industry? Are books pastimes?)”

Bringing together some of the continent’s most talented writers, the Liminal Festival contemplates the language of our shared histories and future.

“Working in telly, it’s astonishing how much writers’ rooms feel like the engine rooms of cultural production—whose stories we [decide to] tell determines whose humanity we value. I think th...

As 2023 comes to a close, the Liminal editors have been thinking about the best books we’ve read this year.

“So much of what we live is complicated or conflicted, and based in feeling, and not in words. Language allows us to get very close to saying what we mean, but to me it always falls just short.”