Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
Read More »Geraldine Brooks
Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my…
Read More »The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking…
Read More »My mother’s family were full-on Irish Catholics – faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style.…
Read More »I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing…
Read More »September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate…
Read More »There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that…
Read More »Sydney in the 1960s wasn’t the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city’s western reaches, days passed…
Read More »I mean the beauty of being a writer is it’s not like being a swimmer. When they were talking about…
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