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I WRITE TONIOGHT in a hotel room supplied by two congenial governments, having sent away the evening's inevitable prostitute....

By Patrick Holland

Selected for Best Australian Stories 2007IN THE MORNING we woke and it was like all the mornings we'd imagined....

By Shane Strange

Catching communistsI REMEMBER VERY very well the words the president used. We were all summoned to a big hall....

IT'S ELEVEN O'CLOCK in the morning but the tunnels below Seoul Town Hall are deserted; window grilles closed over...

By Charlotte Teek

IT IS A cold winter evening and the visitors' lounge at the Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre feels like the...

By Peter Mares

MY TAXI WOUND through the early evening traffic, moving like a snake through tall grass. Packed buses towered over...

By Wayne McLennan

GEORGE W BUSH Snr berates Iran for newk-ya-lah ambitions. George Bush enunciated the Saddam in Hussein like he'd just lipped too much salt...

By Larry Buttrose

WHEN THE TINY Airnorth plane landed at Dili airport I knew something about campaigning but little about Timorese politics....

By Jim Chalmers

ON DECEMBER 31, 1926, from her lodgings on the outskirts of Paris, the exiled Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, wrote...

By Bei Ling

CHINESE LESSON 1: I was nine and it was dinner time. My father was in monologue mode. He said...

By Brian Castro

AT NIGHT, WHEN the sun finally, reluctantly, sets in the stifling Beijing summer, the view from the apartment window...

By Pat Hoffie

For BruceTHIS IS A story about a poor boy in Kathmandu. It is also about his friend and mine,...

By Jane Nicholls