The Argonauts

The ArgonautsAn intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre bending memoir, a work of 'autotheory' offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking about desire, identity and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its centre is a romance the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes the author's account of falling

Sarah Hanson-Young and Pauline Hanson

this time a beautifully illustrated celebration of the life of the river

Spinifex goes with him

the sudden death of her father

The Invisible String offers a very simple approach to overcoming loneliness

regenerative farmer

Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality

No one said high school would be easy

As one after another influential courtier disappears

and including tips for substituting regular pantry ingredients where needed - including Bush-Tomato Cheese on Toast

they tell the tale of two lost souls peregrinating through time

The settlers who took land on the river from the mid-1790s were there because of an extraordinary experiment devised half a world away