In This Issue
November 2005 in brief
Malcolm Knox presents “2024”, a fictionalised future where privacy has become history, and where children monitor their parents in a golden...
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Comment
Clive James
The nickname ‘Diamond Jim’ fitted James McClelland the way ‘Big Julie from Chicago’ fitted the gangster in Guys and Dolls who rolled...
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Uncle Malcolm
Martin Flanagan
“You should write about Uncle Malcolm,” Lenny Clarke told me one day. Lenny’s a Kirrae Wurrung man. He lives on his traditional lands,...
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The Price of Noodles
Michelle Griffin
The waiters at Lentil As Anything, a homely 28-seat vegetarian joint on Blessington Street, St Kilda, never tell you how much to pay for...
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Game Dame in a Doona
Clare Barker
Most people are familiar with the concepts of the Yummy Mummy – the gym-toned career woman with child who manages to stay fanciable – and...
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Zero Millimetres in Tooleybuc
John Harms
In the Cricketers Bar at Melbourne’s Windsor Hotel, shortly after the Swans’ AFL grand final victory, a bloke from Sydney told me the ABC...
More ...The Monthly Essays, Arts & Letters
2024
Malcolm Knox
“The event that dislocated our period from the last was September 11.” “Oh-one. Twin Towers. Splatter patterns. It’s raining men,...
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Enrolment Daze: Freedom, order and The Golden Bead Material: a parent’s dilemma
Amanda Lohrey
In the years since then, I’ve observed with enduring fascination the many parents I’ve known who have agonised over their children’s...
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Man Without a Name: A Te Aroha cowboy and his secret part in training the 1985 Melbourne Cup winner
Craig Sherborne
A sweetheart should have made him stay in England, where he came from, should have said to him: “My darling, New Zealand is the other side...
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The Prince of Darkness is a Gentleman
Janette Turner ...
On one night, the worst one, and the last one before Katie ran away, there were eighteen of those calls. They were not all the same. If our...
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Satisfaction (I Can't Get No)
Robert Forster
When mention is made of a new Rolling Stones album the mind immediately races back to their golden period, that evocatively named series of...
More ...Television, Arts & Letters
Queen Emily of the High Cs
Kerryn Goldsworthy
“Why are you wasting your time watching that appalling trash?” asked the music critic I recently got into a conversation with about...
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The Great Unspooler. Romeo meets Juliet in 'Kashmir': 'Shalimar the Clown' by Salman Rushdie
Delia Falconer
Toward the beginning of A Satanic Affair, his analysis of the furore caused by The Satanic Verses, Malise Ruthven tells the following story...
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Mission Unthinkable: 'Paradise Now'
Helen Garner
Why is this young woman, in a thin cotton blouse, dark pants and boots, standing alone with a little suitcase in her hand, 50 metres from...
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John Howard in Toytown: Hip politics at the Sydney Museum of Contempory Art
Justin Clemens
Recent laboratory work on locusts has shown that they can be turned from their harmless “solidarious” phase to a predatory “gregarious” one...
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'Lunar Park' by Bret Easton Ellis
Zora Simic
In his latest novel Bret Easton Ellis introduces a narrator, also called Bret Easton Ellis, whom we are encouraged not to trust for any...
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'Two Lives' by Vikram Seth
James Ley
Vikram Seth’s great-uncle and aunt were a mismatched couple. Shanti Seth was a short Hindu dentist with one arm; Hennerle Caro, tall and...
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Encounters
George Johnston & Leonard Cohen
Shane Maloney
On a wet March afternoon in 1960 an unknown 25-year-old Canadian poet was wandering the streets of London. Since his arrival three months...
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