Meanjin Quarterly

Jeremy Mayer is a Californian artist who makes some truly amazing sculptures out of old typewriters. The process is entirely cold – meaning that instead of welding or soldering or even using glue, he relies on the pieces holding together naturally.

A while ago, David Ulin, book editor of the LA Times, wrote about the ongoing impact of internet culture on his reading habits.

If you know where to look (and sometimes even when you don’t), there is a wealth of street art around the laneways, tunnels, walls and crevices of our cities. There are a few blogs and sites about which ...

There are four kinds of book review. There's the good good review, which is both favourable about its subject and skilfully, knowledgeably written on the basis of a careful, thorough reading of the book in question. ...

Cory Doctorow, science fiction author, blogger and copyleft activist, is embarking on a rather interesting project to test almost every aspect of the ‘freemium’ business model. (The term is a melding of ...

There's a reason why I never got around to travelling the world like most of my friends: there's too much to see between pages. With books you don't have to buy a souvenir of a good journey, because the book is the keepsake.

The letter may be dying but blogs devoted to cataloguing them are truly well and alive – Letters of Note is great little site by Shaun Usher which gathers together ‘correspondence deserving of a wider audience’, including dispatches from Mark Twain, John Keats and Frida Kahlo. ...

There are some wonderful things going on with infographics (visual representations of facts, statistics and data) at the moment. With the advent of the web and digital programming, this industry has taken ...

On Friday a journalist friend rang looking for some comments about the death of the letter. The story grew out of reports of a sharp decline in the use of snail mail, and having already spoken to historian ...

A few months ago I watched a remarkable television show: Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press. Maybe you watched it too; because I'm a letterpress printer, I've had a lot of people ask me if I saw it. I ...

Strange Maps is a blog run by Frank Jacobs which, needless to say, brings together weird and wonderful cartography from around the world, from a map showing the black holes in the Internet to one imagining the subterranean canals on Mars, as well as this one inverting the earth’s land and seas.