In the Autumn issue of Meanjin Australian literary legend Gerald Murnane explains what a long and complex sentence can do for meaning. We explore the cracks between the gender binary, wonder what it is that makes regional Australia tick, and look again at the art of Tom Roberts. There's new fiction from Michael Wilding and Heather Rose, poetry from Peter Minter and Julie Chevalier, and Mile Franklin winner Sofie Laguna lists her contenders for Australia in Three Books.


Jonathan Green has been a working journalist since the late 1970s, mainly on newspapers including The Melbourne Herald, The Herald Sun, The Sunday Herald, The Sunday Age and The Age. He edited Crikey for three years before becoming foundation editor of ABC online's The Drum. He now hosts Sunday Extra on ABC Radio National.