Malcolm Knox presents “2024”, a fictionalised future where privacy has become history, and where children monitor their parents in a golden age of all-seeing surveillance.

Amanda Lohrey, in “Enrolment Daze”, reflects on every parent’s dilemma as she recalls her own fraught search for the perfect school for her daughter.

Craig Sherborne, in “Man Without a Name”, remembers his childhood in New Zealand and a horse trainer who believed he had a secret part in training the 1985 Melbourne Cup Winner.

In The Nation Reviewed, Clive James revisits his interview with “Diamond Jim” McClelland in the 1980s and the question he should have asked him about his part in the Dismissal, Michelle Griffin visits a vegetarian joint with karmic attitude, and Martin Flanagan writes about “Uncle Malcolm” Fraser.

Robert Forster broods over whether The Rolling Stones – still rocking, still mesmerised by ladies and leashes – can make another decent album.

Plus, Kerryn Goldsworthy marvels at Australian Idol’s popularity contest, Delia Falconer reviews the latest offering by “The Great Unspooler”, Salman Rushdie, Justin Clemens explains why he is not impressed by the art — or the crowd — at the "Primavera" exhibition, and Helen Garner wrestles with the grim politics of the film Paradise Now.