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INK THIS: IN the afternoons he would begin to drink – not very much, but steadily – to gauge...

By Brian Castro

FOR THREE DAYS straight, Anna had stayed inside, limbs aching, senses dulled. She'd heard Tom come and go –...

By Cameron Raynes

I AM NOT the greatest fan of the obligatory cultural tours that are increasingly anchored in the program of...

By Huib Schippers

WHEN MILTON, IN Lycidas, tells us that "Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise/ To scorn...

By David Malouf

'WHAT IS IT about music education in Queensland?' This question is often asked when Australian music educators gather. Everyone...

By Julie Ballantyne

UNDERSTANDING OF ART can no longer be limited – as it often appears to be in the popular imagination...

The critical attitude Strikes many people as unfruitful. That is because they find the state Impervious to their criticism. But what in this...

By Robyn Archer

TWO THOUGHTS SPRANG to mind as I dangled from the top of New Zealand's tallest building one sunny November...

By Ryan Heath

THERE WAS A time when, if asked what I did, I could reply without hesitation that I was an...

By Kim Mahood

THE PUSH FOR war in Iraq went in to overdrive in September 2002, six months before the first American...

By Peter Manning

IF YOU'RE LOOKING for an example of how a classic literary text can speak to the present, you could...

By Nicholas Jose

LIKE TINY TERRORISTS, a slew of toxic memories from the last twenty years swarm through my mind when considering...

By Julian Meyrick