EssayIF YOU GET a casual job as an academic at an Australian university, you think you are very lucky – a job working in your own discipline, a beginning to an academic career. You may be given casual teaching...

GR Onlineaway from a place to write about a place I BEGIN THE first draft of my new book, a memoir of cities and frienships, while living in Rome for six months. But I can't finish the chapters about Rome until...

EssayTHE WRITER NEEDS a body to perform writing. The body is a text written by thought, experience, genetics, culture, performance, fashion, personality. The body is the self, the self is an illusion, and personality is one of its illusions....

Memoir'In dreams foreignness is absolutely pure, and this is the best thing for writing. Foreignness becomes a fantastic nationality.' – Hélène CixousMADLY IN LOVE with the city of Rome, I was certain I wouldn't be able to stay away...