Essay Archives

'Nothing is as revolutionary as candour.' – Robert Desnos (French surrealist from the 1930s) I THINK WE would agree –...

By Frank Moorhouse

AT THE FUNERAL of Chile's General Pinochet, in December 2006, Francisco Cuadrado Prats stood for hours in a queue...

By Maria Tumarkin

'BUT COULD YOU do it warts and all?'When in 2002 Michael Kirby greeted my proposal for a biography with...

By AJ Brown

TODAY I BOUGHT a new mobile telephone. The woman who served me seemed weary, which was understandable since it...

By Adam Muir

In the town of Odessathere is a gardenand Dvonya is there,Dvonya whom I lovethough I have never been in...

By Peter Bishop

THE CASUAL OBSERVER might imagine that a sweeping election victory after years in the political wilderness would be cause...

By Anne Tiernan

October 2003Betty Dixon from Goulburn called this morning. She had some information about one of "her boys" in the...

By Anne Coombs

I SPENT THE first of my teenage years living in the grounds of an approved school, a place that...

By Andrew O’Hagan

MANILA WAS IN pitch darkness and gangs of soldiers roamed the streets arresting anyone who was foolish enough to...

By Paul Wilson

GREENSBURG, KANSAS, IN America's agricultural heartland, is by no means a greenie enclave. It's tornado country. On 4 May...

By Mara Bún

THERE ARE ENOUGH Black days in modern Australian history to fill up a week several times over – Black...

By Tom Griffiths

'Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows...

By Michael Gawenda