The Christchurch earthquake was just one of the tragedies Michelle Tom survived. From adversity, she says, we can all learn to harness fear, resist panic, and practise trustIn his 1961 book A Grief Observed, about the loss of his wife, CS Lewis said th…
‘Gender is a kind of haunting’: Jennifer Mills explores the queer potential of the ghost story in The Airways
Miles Franklin-shortlisted author’s new novel follows a ghost who can inhabit different bodies in a reflective take on the genreIt’s hardly a spoiler to reveal that the chief protagonist of Jennifer Mills’s latest novel dies. It is fleeting, fragmented…
Among Finland’s cold lakes and majestic pines, I learned to be present to beauty | Mette Jakobsen
Living alone for months in a European forest taught Mette Jakobsen a lesson to carry through the pandemic: to look at something beautiful every dayIn 2019 I travelled to a remote part of Finland to finish a novel.I was worn out. Three years in academia…