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A WINDSWEPT WINTER'S day in February 1992. The Decatur branch of the First Union Bank. Newly arrived in Atlanta,...

Shortlisted, The 2007 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism, Magazine Feature WritingThis is a story about the habits of...

By Margaret Simons

The womb-like basin of Terania Creek, with its narrow cervix of an entrance, faces south. In its moist embrace...

By Nigel Turvey

To fall in love is to create a religion with a fallible god. – BorgesAct I – THE Polish Girl...

By David Sornig

In June, 2006, after we'd returned from the screening of the film Ten Canoes at the Cannes International Film Festival, I...

By Rolf De Heer

THE PLEASURE OF the club is a guilty pleasure, a pleasure of satisfaction sitting at the edge of arrogance,...

By Jay Verney

Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K, for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one...

By Malcolm Knox

Milli was born able to hold her head up, and kept this ability. She had sheeny, topaz eyes, dark...

By Jennifer Kremmer

"I agree with the gay Englishman [Irishman Oscar Wilde] who said you should either look like a work of...

By Lee Tulloch

Aaron Wildavsky was a fiercely clever, combative kid from Brooklyn who became a professor of political science. He had...

By Glyn Davis

In a Sydney restaurant in 1978, what was called a "maritime" salad exploded my notion of Australian restaurant fare....

By Stephen Downes

History is a nightmare through which we are all trying to get a good night's sleep.– Saul Bellow On a...

By James Halford