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On ‘Collected Stories’, by Janette Turner Hospital
AS I WRITE this essay the cicadas are shrill outside. The air is heavy and even in my cool...
On ‘Remember Ronald Ryan’, by Barry Dickins
'PLEASE ADMIT THE bearer…to the execution of Ronald Joseph Ryan, on 3rd February, 1967.’ This invitation, received by journalists covering...
The new wave
LATELY, THREE LOCALLY made films have escaped Adelaide for the world, all directed by women. Sophie Hyde’s 52 Tuesdays,...
The Palais
WHEN RUBY FIRST moves to town she stays with the Miss Wrights on Prospect Road, on the recommendation of...
Adelaide detours
From the southWhat is the smoke?Is this a city or somethingmore inexplicable?Don’t talk of alleys, this isa suburb, see...
Fly in, fly far away
THE ARGUMENT IN the car starts the way it always does. One brother’s arm is around the other’s shoulders,...
Dispatches from the radical centre
SOUTH AUSTRALIANS HAVE a reputation for being a little bit up themselves. They speak with soft-toned vowels. They boast...
So dry a homeland
THERE ARE STILL some hot summer nights when I can tool around Adelaide with the windows down and feel...
Bad breath
RUMBA WONDERED WHY his parents were taking so long. He was both elated and anxious because he could keep...
Bigger than heaven
1 I RECALL VERY little about myself before the age of six. I possess no photographs to jolt the hidden...
Waiting for the sun
EVEN THOUGH I have been lost in the pop-culture megastores of Tokyo, and touched the bronze horns of the...
Stormy times
IN SEPTEMBER 2016, South Australia was buffeted by the most ferocious storm in half a century. Apocalyptic clouds gathered...
