A man imprisoned by taboo learns the price of love. A child visits the grave of a cousin she's never met; another absorbs the fallout of her parents' divorce. Friendships rupture beyond repair, and family members collide when it comes to caring for their ageing father. These vivid stories of yearning, loneliness and resilience navigate the naivety of childhood, the complications of young adulthood and the politics of marriage. Monica Macansantos is a powerful new voice bringing us the raw and darkly beautiful perspectives of characters lost both in and out of their homeland, the Philippines.\n'﻿﻿﻿I loved these beautiful stories by Monica Macansantos, who writes with such beauty and delicacy about desire, home, longing, loneliness, duty, and hope - that is, what it means to be human. Every story is terrific, different, surprising. I can't wait to see what she does next.' - Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Souvenir Museum, Bowlaway, The Giant's House and Thunderstruck & Other Stories; winner of the 2015 Story Prize

Love and Other Rituals: Selected Stories

Literature & Fiction

Macansantos, Monica

Literary

Grattan Street Press, University of Melbourne

Small Data is Beautiful

Arts & Photography

Author Robert Hassan believes we are trapped in a digital prison of constant distraction. In Uncontained, he books a passage on a container ship and spends five weeks travelling from Melbourne to Singapore without digital distractions -- disconnected, and essentially alone.
In this space of isolation and reflection, he is able to reconnect with lost memories and interrogate the lived experience of time.
Uncontained is a personal exploration of this journey and a must-read for anyone who feels the encroachment of the digital upon their inner world.
The first academic monograph from Grattan Street Press.

Uncontained: Digital disconnection and the experience of time

Hassan,Robert

Religion & Spirituality

Intermissions is an anthology of over 60 original short stories, exploring the complexity of the human condition. The collection brings together musings on love and loss, experimentation, isolation, suffering, intimacy and connection, environmental collapse and the Anthropocene. Carefully curated by Grattan Street Press, this eclectic selection of stories from both Australian and international writers is haunting, uplifting, moving and absurd. We invite you to traverse its pages to discover the diversity of voices reflective of an ever-changing world.

Intermissions

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