Articles Archive

'In dreams foreignness is absolutely pure, and this is the best thing for writing. Foreignness becomes a fantastic nationality.'...

By Inez Baranay

'WATCH OUT – ALI Baba!' the taxi driver says as we pass the burnt-out Information Ministry in Baghdad. 'Ali...

By Irris Makler

FROM OLIVERA Sarajevo, 2 December 2011'How are you?''Today, better than tomorrow.'This is a new, dark joke I heard in...

By Olivera Simić

'He who stays at home beside his hearth and is content with the information he may acquire concerning his...

THERE AREN'T THREE seats on the Solomon Airways flight to Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, so I...

By Lesley Synge

I SUPPOSE HE was from the provinces, the heavily shelled country in the central highlands or further north, where...

By Patrick Holland

It is late at night. I am driving alone from Nadzab airport to Lae. Large potholes crater the narrow...

By Brett Caldwell

IT WAS ASKING a lot of a man that he pursue a military career in Australia between 1918 and...

By Michael McKernan

Perpetual Peace ... philosophers who dream this sweet dream ...– Immanuel Kant Soon war will simply be one chemist approaching...

By Frank Moorhouse

ON MY THIRTIETH birthday – a while ago – a friend showed me a cartoon parody of a high-school...

By Joanna Kujawa

'WHAT YOU HAVE to consider is who visited Bucharest. Bucharest was the point of contact for trade unionists and...

By Jane R Goodall

'These incompatible misfits who were smuggled into Australia should all be kicked out ... Thank God for the Howard...

By Eva Hornung