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THE PLANE IS moving backwards. Slowly. You have to stare at the ground to confirm it. Yes, the luggage...

By Tony Davis

Now from the dark, a deeper dark…Elizabeth Coatsworth, ‘Calling in the Cat’ LUKE CROSSES HIS arms against the bluster and...

By Helen Gildfind

THIS IS THE second year that I’ve been involved as an editor of the Griffith Review novella edition, and...

By Aviva Tuffield

‘Culture is created by us and defines us. It is the embodiment of the distinctive values, traditions and beliefs...

By Julianne Schultz

BORN IN 1976, Miguel Syjuco is a freelance writer from Metro Manila in the Philippines. Since finishing a Bachelor...

MURONG XUECUN IS the pen name of Hao Qun, a novelist and the most famous of a wave of...

IN A RECENT article in The New Yorker, ‘The Dead Are Real’, Larissa MacFarquhar described historical fiction as ‘a...

By Sally Breen

WHEN PRIME MINISTER Tony Abbott declared and repeated, just in case it was missed the first time, that ‘the...

By Julianne Schultz

SHENG KEYI IS a Chinese writer who grew up in Huaihua Di, a poor and isolated village of the...

AUSTRALIA WAS A nation established behind walls. The outward barriers of racially restrictive immigration, Commonwealth defence, and the desire...

By David Ritter

IN THE WINTER of 1980, in the last few months of her life, Queenie Leavis, wife of renowned literary...

By Julian Meyrick

What of the real present, the men-of-no-politics, the once respectable Golden Mean? Obsolete; in any case, lost sight of.Thomas...

By Gary Clark