The circle line THE COME CLATTERING down the stairwells and surge onto the platform around her: revoltingly young, for the most part,... By Linda Jaivin
A grove of olives ONCE I HAD to bury a cat. She was a beautiful cat, lithe of limb, delicate, a great leaper.... By Marion Halligan
Skylights GORDON NEVER RUNS his own errands but he banged on my door at 4 am and ordered me to... By Patrick Allington
Making perfect babies THE BYSTANDER APPEARED shocked. Open-mouthed, she was standing there shaking her head. "Not one", she said, "not one but... By Sam Tormey
My fall in Calcutta Calcutta is a big, middle-class, air-conditioned city. My publisher′s chauffeur was waiting for me at the airport. Through the... By Marie Darrieussecq
The magnificent Amberson The toilet was not what I had expected. Still less the porn.The pedestal in the bathroom of our executive... By Nick Earls
Best done slowly DURING THE 2010 election campaign we were told that the prospective leaders' favourite books wereThe Lord of the Rings... By Julianne Schultz
Your job is to amaze me I'M ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED to have been invited out of retirement to have the privilege of addressing you. I only... By David Puttnam
The lords of time THOMAS MORE'S UTOPIA 1516 was recently claimed as the most influential fiction in history, that it had worked its... By David Sornig
Bogans run I AM FINDING a way to share an offhand observation made in a chat where I saw shared recognition... By Janine Little
First physics, then metaphysics THE EARTHQUAKE THAT rocked the Mediterranean during the summer of 1999 was quick and devastating. Lasting thirty-seven seconds and... By Jorge Sotirios
Two quarrels PLATO TELLS THIS story.[i] Set in 433 BCE, it has as its backdrop an Athenian city-state at the peak... By Mark Chou