Public Things Newsletter

Reading Aurelian Craiutu’s “Why Not Moderation?” in a moment of uncertain polarisation and partisanship

Notes on the question of Australia’s Poet Laureate

'Being shown the instruments of torture'

It Speaks: Biographers in Conversation

Notes on Commensality

‘When the facts conflict with the legend’

The Doors of Psychoanalysis

On Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths

Northrop Frye’s Four Levels of Literary Meaning

The Endurance of Things

‘He waxes desperate with imagination’

A Substacker Reads Luiz Costa Lima in Australia and Bursts into Tears (with apologies to László F. Földényi)