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Ben Brooker is a writer and critic based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. He is working on his first book, a cultural history of psychedelics in Australia.

Splendid isolation

I can still remember the first time I went to the cinema on my own. The...

Adventures in (re)Brand-ing

One of the more insidious forms of internet clickbait asks what has become of this or...

Stupid rich white people

A successful playwright once said to me in a workshop that Australian plays rarely depict the...

Dissent is necessary

In the months before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, to be a part of the global climate...

One year later

My son’s first year of life was bookended by what felt like interminable stays in hospital....

The last days of the war on drugs

With the recent, ultimately unfounded flap about a “red wave” in the US midterm elections, you...