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Mike Ticher reviews Hugo Hamilton’s The Speckled People.
Train lovers are usually first lured by steam engines and stations. Enthusiasts at the Model Railway Association pursue their passion in miniature. They are also found in busy railyards around Australia.
Hugh Dillon reviews W.G. Sebald’s On the Natural History of Destruction and Mark Roseman’s The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution.
Peter Pierce gets on the bus.
Thoughts from Rosie Hoban, Morag Fraser, Kate Stowell
With a predominantly working class Anglo-Celtic population, pre-World War II Ashfield was a green escape from inner-city Sydney. But now Chinese have settled in large numbers, and some blame them for what they see as Ashfield’s disrepair and unwelcoming atmosphere.
Ross McMullins’ So Monstrous a Tragedy: Chris Watson and the world’s first national labour government is reviewed by Michael McGirr.
The lives of Ned Kelly and Oscar Wilde bear uncanny symmetries.
Printed books still possess the power to captivate, thrill and inspire. Alison Aprhys confesses her addiction.
Poem by Peter Rose.
Poem by Peta Edmonds.
The death of Jean Charles de Menezes invites us to reflect on where our conscription into that war has brought us.