HEAT has long occupied a serious, unsentimental position in Australian literary culture: international in outlook, formally attentive, and resistant to trend-chasing.

Essays, fiction, and criticism sit side by side, unified by intellectual density and tonal confidence.

This is a journal for readers who value continuity and argument—writing that assumes attention, rewards rereading, and situates Australian work in conversation with broader literary and philosophical traditions. Not lightweight, but never ornamental.

Only sold as a pair.