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Love, social networks and other avatars

WHEN CONSIDERING TECHNOLOGY, few people immediately think of happiness and joy. Most find computing a challenge or irritating. It...

By Michael Blumanstein

Three for all

FROM THE THREE bears and wise men to the enduringly mundane 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll', the neat...

By Tony Barrell (dec.)

Finding a place in the narrative

AS THE 1996 election campaign began, Paul Keating needed to record a five-minute statement for a free advertising slot...

By Don Watson

Words from memory

Kate Veitch with her father.HERE IS MY father's dictionary, the one thing of his I...

By Kate Veitch

What’s this thing called sex?

I GOT TO know Bunty because of Dad. Reacting in shock, my father had put the house on the...

By Tangea Tansley

Wild coast

ALL THE TIME there was Piha, wonderful, free flying, fresh Piha with its knotty cliffs, black sand, wild beach,...

By Rosie Scott

The reluctant memoirist

She leaned across the picnic hamper, reaching out for my hearing aid in my open-palmed hand. I leaned back,...

By Donna McDonald

A party for Germaine

'LESBIANS DON'T BITE,' Margaret says. 'Not as a rule anyway.' She lifts the corners of her mouth with her...

By Julie Bowen Kearney

Can you write a history of yourself?

‘EVERY HISTORIAN SHOULD write an autobiography,’ wrote the historian AJP Taylor, introducing his own, A Personal History (1983). ‘The experience teaches...

By Sheila Fitzpatrick

Googling me, Googling you

IN FEBRUARY THE Macquarie Dictionary committee named ‘googleganger’ as its Word of The Year for 2010.[i] ‘Googleganger was a...

By Brent Balinski

Staffroom confidential

AT THIRTY-TWO I ran away from school. I left in the middle of second term. Severed all ties. Took...

By Cassandra Atherton

The dog of fiction and the wolf of memory

I remember leaving that place, looking over my shoulder and with my ears alert for the sound of the...

By Miriam Zolin