As 2023 comes to a close, the Liminal editors have been thinking about the best books we’ve read this year.
Read MoreTo celebrate the publication of Don’t Buy Fruit & Veg Without Me! we’re sharing Thanh Truong’s notes on how to pick the perfect Nashi, and a recipe for Nashi Herbal Soup.
Read MoreTo celebrate the publication of Tenderheart, we’re sharing Hetty McKinnon’s Garlicky Chilli Oil recipe.
Read MoreSoo-Min Shim reflects on Shin Jaedon’s Double Moon, now showing at Heide Museum 2022.
Read MoreLIMINAL’s picks for Emerging Writers’ Festival 2022!
Read More‘Without family support, other income, or a lucky break in the form of Powerball, a good horse, or a night at the casino, writers are left out of the Australian promise.’
Read MoreLIMINAL’s picks for National Young Writers Festival 2021!
Read MoreLIMINAL’s picks for Prototype Festival 2021!
Read MoreLIMINAL’s picks for Emerging Writers Festival 2021!
Read More‘I wish I had more of Palestine to pass on, but your stories are our only heirlooms.’
Read MoreA directory of information, support and ways to Witness & Care for India, 2021.
Read More‘The challenges for decolonisation here are structured by global forces, but the focus of resistance has to be local. It must be grounded in a bodily sovereignty that draws its power from Country and people allowing one to sit inside oneself with a custodial autonomy.’
Read More‘If we define the subaltern as those that cannot speak, then we know it is not an essential position that does not change over time.’
Read More‘A very basic paradox matters. On the one hand, we know we were never colonised. Malayalis have always and will always be Malayalis. We never were and never will be British subjects.’
Read More‘Translation matters because it doubles our audience. It can connect us to countries that are new to us. It can enable us to reflect more deeply on our mother tongues.’
Read More‘What does sovereignty mean nowadays, here, on this continent, in this place with its many laws, many countries, many names, many people, many languages?’
Read More‘After all, decolonising white settlers is not beyond the realm of possibility, but it is currently beyond the realm of practical imagination. All of the right gestures, all of the well meant rhetoric, all of the good feeling, can dissipate in an instant.’
Read More‘It’s hard to say what the inspiration is because the inspiration is the world, which is terrible, and we have to live in it.’
Read More‘But to white Australia, historical inaccuracy is more than oversight, it is method. The myth of white Australian fitness and primacy is manufactured; cast through monument, gesture and emblem.’
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