Do you write for yourself or an audience?It’s a common issue with authors: who is the target audience? For an intensely private activity, writing can have very public repercussions. And the sweet innocence of a first novel can never be replicated, notes Jessica Au.
Helen garner
ASIO’s weird, incompetent little cold war
You can get a sense of the malice and paranoia that dominated ASIO’s operations by looking at the files now available under the 30-year rule, writes Jeff Sparrow.
