Archive: Arena Magazine

"A visit to Belmarsh maximum-security prison

Assange Behind Bars, by Felicity Ruby

Arena Magazine no. 162

Felicity Ruby

Oct 2019

A visit to Belmarsh maximum-security prison
"The UK petitioners—neoliberal feminism and its unequal outrage

Julian Assange and the Femocracy, by Gavin Lewis

Arena Magazine no. 160

Gavin Lewis

Jun 2019

The UK petitioners—neoliberal feminism and its unequal outrage
"On the uberisation of everything

F*ck the Gig Economy, by H. C. Gildfind

Arena Magazine no. 161

H. C. Gildfind

Aug 2019

On the uberisation of everything

Alan Roberts Prize Winner Announced

3 Sep 2019

Arena Magazine and the Arena Publications Editors are pleased to announce that Stephen Pascoe is the winner of the inaugural Alan Roberts Prize for the best essay ‘related to ecology, social life and a politics for the future’. Stephen’s essay is entitled ‘The Cars That Ate Paris’—a reference to the Paris Accord and to the black comedy by […]
"The fortune of a salesman and the fate of the Palestinians

The Deal of the Century, by Ihab Shalbak

Arena Magazine no. 161

Ihab Shalbak

Aug 2019

The fortune of a salesman and the fate of the Palestinians
"Cultural supremacism or shared ordinariness?

Before the Next Massacre, by Christopher Houston

Arena Magazine no. 161

Christopher Houston

Aug 2019

Cultural supremacism or shared ordinariness?
"The global security emergency and its economic eruptions

A War Footing?, by John Hinkson

Arena Magazine no. 161

John Hinkson

Aug 2019

The global security emergency and its economic eruptions
"The stock critiques made by Ramsay and its friends on the Right show how little…

Ramsay’s Groupthink, by Nick Riemer

Arena Magazine no. 161

Nick Riemer

Aug 2019

The stock critiques made by Ramsay and its friends on the Right show how little it actually knows about the humanities
"The financialisation of housing and its social consequences

Regeneration or Social Cleansing?, by Joanne Knight

Arena Magazine no. 160

Joanne Knight

Jun 2019

The financialisation of housing and its social consequences
"This is about Les Murray as I knew him. It is not an encomium but…

Les Murray: Not an Encomium, by Stefano de Pieri

Arena Magazine no. 160

Stefano de Pieri

Jun 2019

This is about Les Murray as I knew him. It is not an encomium but a story about how I came to know him—if you can ever know someone like him. Stephen Edgar, in a poem entitled ‘The Grand Hotel’—an analogy or disguise for Les’s mind—writes: Apart from that, though, I recall Something you said […]
"Countering the anti-maternal fantasies of the alt-Right

Mother Hate, by Julie Stephens

Arena Magazine no. 160

Julie Stephens

Jun 2019

Countering the anti-maternal fantasies of the alt-Right
"Identity and emotion appear to be playing a role in politics neither tapped in opinion…

A Vessel for Our Hopes?, by Alison Caddick

Arena Magazine no. 160

Alison Caddick

Jun 2019

Identity and emotion appear to be playing a role in politics neither tapped in opinion polls nor understood very well by politicos of the Left, and the centre-Left especially.