It is religious, Lacanian, monotonous. But, thank God, the book is also hilarious. ‘A Short Story’ is a delicious ... Karen Hitchcock The 21 stories in Ryan O’Neill’s new collection are tied together by a preoccupation with language. ...

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and riveting. In Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story , he again pairs Coogan and Brydon. The warmth he ... accompanied by misery.  Winterbottom moves the short scenes along at a cracking pace, often with jump ... recent Midnight in Paris . The story in the first act seems to be that all is going well ...

The Monthly - Luke Davies - 2012-05-03 12:20 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Fitzgerald made a rare foray into the public realm shortly after the election, to lambast Newman ... Previous story: May 2012 in brief Next story: The New Republican ...

The Monthly - John Birmingham - 2012-05-03 11:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

And it was perfectly normal to these kids in shorts and sandals that the man behind the table should have been ... There are secrets along with bones hidden under Timor’s dense blanket of green. Stories and theories abound ... the people of Dili, basing himself in New York and trying to make the world hear the Timor story. His family ...

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applied on a short-term (and time limited) basis to redress a particular issue. At one level this is what ... in The Monthly , March 2012, No. 76 Previous story: Daryl Johnson Next story: March 2012 ...

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McMillan’s Last Ball Advantage: An Anthology. Short stories, poems, lyrics, extracts from Death in Dili, three old RAM stories, the 7,900wd hitch-hiker’s journal from 1978, recollections and reflections … ... Paul Kelly, Poetry, Short Stories) ...

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seemed a clear assertion that what had happened was wrong and intolerable. But the story of the live ... animals as “beings” rather than “things.” The amendment, however, was short-lived after the entire ...

The Monthly - Anna Krien - 2012-03-13 09:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

laden with homoerotic innuendo. It’s not just the shorts. There’s the language, too: ‘hookers’, ‘tackle’ ... Previous story: Flag of Convenience Next story: Rejecting the Centre ...

The Monthly - Benjamin Law - 2012-04-05 16:45 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

on the night of knives, 23 June 2010, arrived via SMS from a Rudd staffer only a few minutes before the story ... minutes before the story became public on ABC News. Just two words lit up: “It’s over.” I didn’t ... the story of a looming challenge, I was furiously texting my friends ‘in the know’. I reasoned Rudd ...

The Monthly - Rhys Muldoon - 2012-03-01 10:51 - 12 comments - 0 attachments

election. A look at the US shows how well our policies are doing by comparison. Shortly after World War ... conflict between rich and poor is now higher than it was in 2009, which tells a powerful story about how ... story: One Last Deadline Next story: The Reluctant Son ...

The Monthly - Wayne Swan - 2012-03-02 06:58 - 89 comments - 0 attachments

year, shortly before the News of the World scandal ensnared James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch reportedly ... they still close ranks under fire, despite being fiercely competitive. A story, perhaps apocryphal, from ... is that this is a terrible story in terms of concentration … of course, none of it is illegal but they are all so closely ...

The Monthly - Paola Totaro - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

To Do: A short story by Jennifer Egan "8. Drop off kids at Mom's; 9. Buy wig; 10. See if small removable portion of fence can be cut QUIETLY." Not Editors Choice ...

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schedule to see me while you are in Darwin. In the short time I have at your disposal, let me welcome you ... the story of modern America is opposite what Roosevelt and Kennedy inspired him to believe: corruption, he ... Mr President. Published in The Monthly , February 2012, No. 75 Previous story ...

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supply in abundance. Energy is a big part of the story: India needs coal, and Australia is the world’s ... and a non-committal India. Australians like to think up initiatives and execute them in short order, while Indians ... story: So Who the Bloody Hell Are You? Next story: In the Picture ...

The Monthly - Michael Wesley - 2012-02-07 15:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

lies about four hours’ drive – or a short, white-knuckled flight on an ageing Fokker F-28 jet – from ... in a class of oligarchs short-circuiting the country’s democratic development. One bright spot – ... Previous story: The Elephant in the Room Next story: Angry Boys ...

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personal stories leaked to the Daily Telegraph (after mounting a legal fight, News Limited offered him ... Morrison later noted: “The gossip reported does not reflect my views,” which fell short of an outright ... February 2012, No. 75 Previous story: Divided We Fall Next story: The Elephant ...

The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2012-02-07 15:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

years. Here, according to Newspoll, is the remarkable story of how his government fared, as measured ... year. If however an election were to be held shortly after the restoration of Rudd, ... Under Gillard, mainly through force of necessity, they have improved. It seems clear that in the short ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-01-23 05:06 - 13 comments - 0 attachments

fiction, Short Stories, Tennis) ... hears. “Robert, do you think we could forget about that dinky little pool just for five short minutes?” ... story: The Life Not Lived Next story: The Orange-bellied Parrot ...

The Monthly - Cate Kennedy - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Humour, Literature, Painting, Short fiction, Short Stories, Writing fiction) ... was of no use for anything, had jumped forward, shoving a ruler between the fitting kid’s teeth. Shortly ... it was a baby, and our cat got it,” he explains. There’s still the possibility that if the story is good enough ...

The Monthly - Sonya Hartnett - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Literature, Short fiction, Short Stories, Writing fiction) ... Published in The Monthly , December 2011 - January 2012, No. 74 Previous story: The Orange-bellied Parrot Next story: Three Boys ...

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creative writing, Fiction, Indian Ocean, Japan, Literature, Short fiction, Short Stories, Tasmania, Tennis, ... Previous story: Whirlpool Next story: At the Condamine Crossroads Motel ...

The Monthly - Nicholas Shakespeare - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(Fiction, Martin Amis, Short Stories, New Yorker) ...

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a story that appeared some weeks before in the Tennant & District Times , the local paper, on 19 ... the media if they can avoid it. Photos and stories about the local football team are welcome, and news about ... attracted some negative comments after the story had appeared in the local paper. It seems he was suspected ...

The Monthly - Paul Toohey - 2011-03-16 10:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Assange has told the story of his childhood and adolescence twice, most recently to a journalist from ... and checking it against commonsense and some material that has emerged since his rise to fame, the story ... on trust many of Assange’s stories about himself. They do not understand that, like many natural writers, ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

Post-Darwinian Experiments in Consciousness and other stories (short fiction by Wells Tower, accompanying art by John Currin) Not Editors Choice Thursday, 29 ...

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