Kill Your Darlings Issues Archives

Issue 29, April 2017

Highlights
- Melinda Soós on Australia’s mental health system
- Liam Pieper on the simple joys of Pusheen
- Josh Jennings on dumpster diving and food waste
- New fiction from Allee Richards and Silvia Kwon
- Nick Gadd on an unexpected encounter with a literary hero
- Gerard Elson interviews KYD publishing directors Hannah Kent and Rebecca Starford.
Issue 28, January 2017

Highlights
- Jane Caro on the unlikely parallels between the Protestant Reformation and the present day
- Lou Heinrich on reconciling the horrors of the recent Royal Commission with spirituality and faith
- Jane Howard on the absence of queer female narratives in theatre
- Erin Hortle on sexism in women’s surfing
- Alice Melike Ülgezer on connecting to the land to overcome trauma
- New fiction from Jennifer Down
- Gerard Elson in Conversation with Madeleine Thien
Issue 27, October 2016

Highlights
- Royce Kurmelovs on the future of the Whyalla steelworks
- Sarah Coles on the battle for organic farming protections
- Rebecca Shaw on fat representation in popular culture
- Angela Smith examines society’s obsession with food, the body and self-image
- Gerard Elson in Conversation with Marie Darrieussecq
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Issue 26, July 2016

Highlights
- Hugh Jones on the the past, present and future of newspapers
- Lian Low on growing up in Malaysia with the stories of Enid Blyton
- Ashley Kalagian Blunt on North Korea’s tourism industry
- Kali Myers on reimagining fairytales for contemporary society
- New fiction from David Sornig
- Gerard Elson in Conversation with Ann Goldstein
Issue 25, April 2016

Highlights
- Jane Caro on the anxiety of work in Australia
- Sarah Coles on how we feed our community
- S.A. Jones on narcissism in federal politics
- Omar Sakr on sexuality, family and homelessness
- New fiction from Aoife Clifford and Karen Bateman
- Gerard Elson in Conversation with Tatiana Salem Levy
Issue 24, January 2016

Highlights
- Laura Woollett searches for Jim Jones
- Jennifer Down returns to Berlin
- Nathan Smith on the iconic publisher NYRB
- Simmone Howell remembers Judy Blume’s Forever
- New fiction from Melanie Myers and Dom Amerena
- Gerard Elson in Conversation with Lynn Coady
Issue 23, October 2015

Highlights
- Philip Brophy investigates how the Hollywood aesthetic influences the production of ISIS propaganda films
- Anna Barnes on how illness has changed her and the relief of diagnosis
- Raphaelle Race looks at the utopian ideal in the internationally best-selling ‘The Long Earth’ series
- Elizabeth Gilbert on creativity
- Kate Mulvany on the shadow of Vietnam
- New fiction from Elizabeth Harrower and Andrea Gillum
- Gerard Elson in Conversation with Helen Macdonald
Issue 22, July 2015

Highlights
- Gillian Terzis looks at how grieving rituals have evolved in the digital age
- Omar Sakr debunks the myth of the starving artist
- Carody Culver revisits Shirley Jackson’s short story, ‘The Lottery’.
- New fiction from Jessica Au and Sonja Dechian
- KYD in conversation with Nick Cave
Issue 21, April 2015

Highlights
- Melanie Joosten on how Australia’s elderly are missing out on the Great Suburban Dream
- Michael Lindsey Davison looks at narcissism and the rise of the selfie-stick
- Brodie Lancaster takes us inside Kim Kardashian’s Hollywood
- New fiction from Omar Musa and Nathan Curnow
- KYD in conversation with Michel Faber
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Issue 20, January 2015 $19.95

Highlights
- Connor Tomas O’Brien on the Liberal party’s obsession with traditional marriage
- Lindsay Simpson remembers Sandra Harvey
- Simon Castles on the absence of cricket in our national literature
- Ender Baskan on terror in the lucky country
- New fiction from Jessie Cole and Anna Spargo-Ryan
- KYD in conversation with Peter Carey
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Issue 19, October 2014

Highlights
- Martin McKenzie-Murray on the nature of violence.
- Lorelei Vashti on the stories we tell ourselves about childbirth.
- Lian Low on Australian identity and the Racial Discrimination Act.
- Kat Muscat on bisexuality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- New fiction from Eleanor Limprecht and Scott McCulloch.
- KYD in conversation with Alissa Nutting.
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Issue 18, July 2014

Highlights
- David Donaldson on the misuse of political donations
- Ambelin Kwaymullina on Indigenous philosophies in writing
- Danielle Binks on sexual diversity in YA fiction
- Luke Ryan on A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Chemo
- New fiction from Ruby J Murray and Jesse Ball
- KYD in conversation with Gary Shteyngart
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