Essays, memoir, fiction and poetry from Australia's finest writers. In the issue’s cover essay, ‘Quest and Queerness: Role-Playing Identity’, Adolfo Aranjuez writes on sexuality, gender and the trouble with pinning down a satisfactory, and true, sense of self. He settles on queer. ‘Queer is fallible but it embodies the very illusory stability that it challenges. Non-binary, mongrel Asian, dual citizen, identity double bind-for me queer is coming home.’