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Learning to write
THAT MAGNIFICENT OLD monkey-apple tree shading the butcher's shop lodged in my mind through a strange trick of memory....
The liberating discipline
THE RICH PROCESS of life is all about the acquisition and application of knowledge. How we manage our life...
Never real and always true
IN 2003, AFTER more than a year in the grip of a major depressive episode, I consulted a doctor...
Celebrating “selfebrity”
WALK INTO ANY newsagent or bookshop. Scan quickly and then let your eyes rest on the racks and racks...
Picking winners
YESTERDAY, AT THE races, someone I was making small talk with asked if I missed journalism. Two champagnes into...
On annoying a shock jock
I USED TO have a boring job. Not a terrible job, just a boring one. Everyday, I had to...
No one to blame
IN THE MEDIA, we do love a trend. If one doesn't exist, in fact, we'll make it up. Two...
Willy and Roy
ROY PRESTON LOVED loved the smell. When the amplifier's valves warmed up: their filaments glowing orange, they gave off...
Synergy and serendipity
I KEEP LOOKING for a term – the opposite of ‘a perfect storm' – to describe the synergy when...
Riding Indonesia’s art boom
Jogjakarta is a city of artists. On every corner of Central Java's ancient royal city there is an aspiring...
Notes from the feral edge
SUNDAY NIGHT ENDED with a feast of dumpstered strawberries, eaten at banquet tables piled high with bark and leaves;...
The unexpected idea
ON A WINTER'S day in 1869, Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev sat at his desk trying to write a textbook...
