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Will Martin
MY OAR STABS the side of the Reliance. We push off and pull away from the ship. Venus is out, but the sky still has some light. Mr Bass and I boat the oars and hoist sail. The Lieutenant takes the helm. Tom Thumb’s sail snaps at the breeze and air-filled we bounce across the water.‘To dare is to do!’ Mr Bass shouts our motto.‘To dare is to do!’ The Lieutenant and I reply as if we are one.Seawater sprays across the gunwale. It is Thursday, the twenty-fourth of March, the year 1796. This is the day that we embark on our second Tom Thumb sail.
The flight
THE PLANE IS moving backwards. Slowly. You have to stare at the ground to confirm it. Yes, the luggage...
Quarry
Now from the dark, a deeper dark…Elizabeth Coatsworth, ‘Calling in the Cat’ LUKE CROSSES HIS arms against the bluster and...
Close to the edit
THIS IS THE second year that I’ve been involved as an editor of the Griffith Review novella edition, and...
The Uses of Culture
‘Culture is created by us and defines us. It is the embodiment of the distinctive values, traditions and beliefs...
Interview with Miguel Syjuco
BORN IN 1976, Miguel Syjuco is a freelance writer from Metro Manila in the Philippines. Since finishing a Bachelor...
Interview with Murong Xuecun
MURONG XUECUN IS the pen name of Hao Qun, a novelist and the most famous of a wave of...
This is not the end
IN A RECENT article in The New Yorker, ‘The Dead Are Real’, Larissa MacFarquhar described historical fiction as ‘a...
Exhuming defining moments
WHEN PRIME MINISTER Tony Abbott declared and repeated, just in case it was missed the first time, that ‘the...
Interview with Sheng Keyi
SHENG KEYI IS a Chinese writer who grew up in Huaihua Di, a poor and isolated village of the...
A market for a nation
AUSTRALIA WAS A nation established behind walls. The outward barriers of racially restrictive immigration, Commonwealth defence, and the desire...
F**k popular culture
IN THE WINTER of 1980, in the last few months of her life, Queenie Leavis, wife of renowned literary...
