Ethan Floyd 11/14/25 Ethan Floyd 11/14/25

“A Tomb for the American Middle Class”: SUDS’ The Humans

Part family drama, part psychological thriller, Stephen Karam’s The Humans traps the Blake family in a dilapidated New York apartment for an uneasy Thanksgiving dinner. The play peels back the horror of modern American middle-class life; debt, illness, ageing parents, and unaccomplished dreams.

Matilda Azmi 10/31/25 Matilda Azmi 10/31/25

Cooked

I’m being fed this creator’s short form videos where he turns his New York apartment into a makeshift cafe, baking sweet and savoury treats once a month for his friends and neighbours.

Jeannette Monteiro 10/31/25 Jeannette Monteiro 10/31/25

Cao lầu

The noodles themselves bear marks of the careful, hand-made process; each strand varying in length and thickness, some tinted with a soft green from being steamed over banana leaves.

Urvi Agrawal 10/31/25 Urvi Agrawal 10/31/25

Overthinking: Swimming Dilemmas

I envy those who can just close their eyes and swim.

Ella Kratzer 10/31/25 Ella Kratzer 10/31/25

Theory, Self-Inserted: Practical Investigations of Gender and Sexuality

It’s blue and wriggling. Why is it wriggling? Turn it off, I pray, please let it die.

“Is it freaking you out that this goes in my butt?”

“No,” a little, “that’s awesome, I’ve just never seen one for real… before.”

He presses it to my leg and I feel a trembling in my bones.

Cosmin Luca 10/31/25 Cosmin Luca 10/31/25

Pișatul Pișătorilor/Epitaph of a Flying Mussel

But first, I’m here,
In the free air, free and clean-ish,
Which gives me some time,
A few seconds more,
To piss over their heads,
With real feeling.

Roxy Lees 10/31/25 Roxy Lees 10/31/25

This Subway Sandwich Quiz Can Predict Who Your Favourite Philosopher Is And It’s 98.8% Accurate

Did someone ask you who your favourite philosopher was? Did you get stuck thinking of a name equally pretentious and performative? Answer these questions to find out what your Subway order can reveal. Instant ostentation, no thinking needed!

Nathan Phillis 10/31/25 Nathan Phillis 10/31/25

Scooby Doo (2002) & Daphne’s Red Ascot

My first memory of ‘body swapping’ media was in 2009, sitting across from my pink PlayStation 2, gleefully watching the first live-action Scooby Doo (2002) movie on an archaic Panasonic TV.

Sage Belgum 10/31/25 Sage Belgum 10/31/25

EMBODIED DISSENT

Police State necessitates a reciprocal exchange between the viewer and the performer, which Walter Benjamin defined as “aura”: the integral essence of an original work that fades in reproduction.

Eloise Tilbury 10/31/25 Eloise Tilbury 10/31/25

i bare it all yet still they do not see

Slow craft challenges obsession with productivity targets and overconsumption. The work does not begin with the embroidering of the fabric but instead the preparation of a range of vegetables which are slowly processed into homemade fabric dyes.

Soraya Moore 10/31/25 Soraya Moore 10/31/25

The Yabbies

I am drowning under the river red gum, slipping between mud and silt—who can tell the difference?

Samadhi Kumarage 10/31/25 Samadhi Kumarage 10/31/25

Vague memories of a distant home

I grip my mothers hand tightly, not wanting to let go.

Sophie Wishart 10/31/25 Sophie Wishart 10/31/25

Unravel Me.

The constraints of tangibility truly plague my waking days. Holding hands is not enough, being in the same bed is not enough, lying on top of me with your full weight is nice, but not enough.

Jack Davis 10/31/25 Jack Davis 10/31/25

Running Simulator 2025

We can only run as a hobby because modern society has no need for our bodies. Effort loses its productive value and now belongs to the domain of recreation.

Marc Paniza 10/31/25 Marc Paniza 10/31/25

Comfort, Exclusion, and The Mall

It is both hollow and alive, a refuge and a trap. For better or worse, this is the public square of Southeast Asia.

Clara Medanić 10/31/25 Clara Medanić 10/31/25

Love letters to the Adriatic

The collages can be read as love letters to the Adriatic, the sole force shielding the central Dalmatian archipelago from immediate destruction for centuries. In the ocean one finds freedom and eternity, a feeling I hope to encapsulate.

Amelia Elliott 10/31/25 Amelia Elliott 10/31/25

Memory: A Practical Guide

Find a stimulus, or rather let it find you.
Be transported through space and time, find yourself in that moment again.
Linger in it for a minute more.

Sasha Blackman 10/8/25 Sasha Blackman 10/8/25

It’s Definitely Fascism… Review of the Sydney Opera House’s ‘Is it Fascism Yet?’

Trump will likely last a third term at least. But we must keep laughing at him. In this absurd political climate, solar joy offers a reevaluation of the current political paradigm as impermanent. I am championing joy as resistance.

Allegra Pezzullo 10/8/25 Allegra Pezzullo 10/8/25

Man And A Woman

He pictured the half-chewed bread inside her mouth, pulp dissolving with saliva. He thought of her body as porous, dissolving, leaking: the reminder that borders between inside and outside were never clean.

Akshaara Agarwal 10/3/25 Akshaara Agarwal 10/3/25

Making it up as we go along (or was that something we’re supposed to know?): The Premiere Review

If we're all just putting it on for one another, isn't it nice to think that there is a place where everyone knows it's being put on?