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THE BYSTANDER APPEARED shocked. Open-mouthed, she was standing there shaking her head. "Not one", she said, "not one but...

By Sam Tormey

Calcutta is a big, middle-class, air-conditioned city. My publisher′s chauffeur was waiting for me at the airport. Through the...

The toilet was not what I had expected. Still less the porn.The pedestal in the bathroom of our executive...

By Nick Earls

DURING THE 2010 election campaign we were told that the prospective leaders' favourite books wereThe Lord of the Rings...

By Julianne Schultz

I'M ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED to have been invited out of retirement to have the privilege of addressing you. I only...

By David Puttnam

THOMAS MORE'S UTOPIA 1516 was recently claimed as the most influential fiction in history, that it had worked its...

By David Sornig

I AM FINDING a way to share an offhand observation made in a chat where I saw shared recognition...

By Janine Little

THE EARTHQUAKE THAT rocked the Mediterranean during the summer of 1999 was quick and devastating. Lasting thirty-seven seconds and...

By Jorge Sotirios

PLATO TELLS THIS story.[i] Set in 433 BCE, it has as its backdrop an Athenian city-state at the peak...

By Mark Chou

But you must agree that you could confuse even God himself with such questions: where I stepped, how I stepped,...

By Nick Marland

MONEY WAS FINALLY paid. But in the end, and as usual, there were no real winners arising from the...

By Sonya Voumard

– Don't look them in the eye, she said. They find it confronting. With your build you scream dominant...