Category: Columns
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White Lotus – Part 1
Wen Yu Yang is a regular contributor to Tharunka and is a team member of the UNSWeetened Literary Journal. Content warnings: minor self harm, minor gore They always underestimated how heavy bird bones could be. They remembered the hollowness, not the dense wall that enveloped it. They forgot that these bones were bred for flight. […]
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In Communion with Calliope #7: In Memoriam of Omayra Sánchez
In Communion with Calliope is a fortnightly column by Ivana Marija Devčić. I feel the weight of the world as though it were a house upon me. I am not Atlas, I cannot bear this mantle stooped and bravely bowing. Instead, I sense the atrophy biting through my muscles. My heart shatters within; that fragile […]
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Science FACT-ion #2: Mars
By Riley Hughes The colonisation of Mars has captivated writers and scientists alike. Films like Total Recall (1990) explore the possibility of a sprawling metropolis while stories such as Ray Bradbury’s Dark They Were and Golden Eyed (1949) asks us what a terraformed Mars would look like. So, is there even a chance of humans […]
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Romanticising The Future
By Maha Rauf “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” Looking for Alaska, John Green As a child, […]
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In Communion with Calliope: #6: Rock
In Communion with Calliope is a fortnightly poetry column by Ivana Marija Devčić. I have always been the unyielding rock. Yes, I may suffer death by a thousand cuts, dealt so gracefully by the asphyxiating lashes of brute wind, and the harsh constancy of rain. Yes, pieces may crumble, and fall from me, like snowflakes […]
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Science FACT-ion #1: Cloning
By Riley Hughes Artificial Intelligence, time travel, the colonisation of space and the exploration of the stars. Once thought the realm of pure science fiction, these sci-fi tropes are slowly becoming more and more within the realm of science fact. Hello and welcome to the first ever instalment of the hotly anticipated Tharunka column SCIENCE […]