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The latest entry in The Enthusiast’s literary magazine primers might seem better conversation fodder for Christmas at Grandma’s, but it might be high time to look twice at Meanjin.

This viscerally surreal tale of a 16-year-old’s psychosis in New York’s subways reads like The Catcher In The Rye off its meds.

Much of the outrage over the Hey Hey It’s Saturday blackface skit arises from the feeling that blackface is a racist embarrassment from the past. But there’s a difference between masquerade and mockery.

Good Charlotte found fame by lambasting ungrateful celebrities. Then Joel Madden starting dating and impregnating them. We ask him about any possible hypocrisies in ‘Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous’.

With a new initiative called “Texttalk”, The Age is publishing an original fiction story by Marieke Hardy, exclusively for the mobile phone.

For David Gulpilil, on the land he is home, but on the red carpet he is king.

Ben Birchall and Shane Dawson lost their ad-agency jobs and posted some funny Facebook pics of them sitting in the gutter. Now they’re industry cult figures thanks to their online chronicle of unemployment, The Sack.

The news that Chris Lilley is working on a new TV series called Angry Boys has many people (including us) excited. But some observers are not so thrilled.