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  • AUSTRALIA

    Our dysfunctional relationship with the earth

    • Michael Mullins
    • 23 December 2006
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    Reports about the death of US technology journalist James Kim in the snowdrifts of the Oregon wilderness suggest his fatal mistake was that he had put his faith in electronic mapping.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Footloose at the foot store

    • Brian Doyle
    • 14 May 2006

    Brian Doyle recalls a shopping excursion that was anything but pedestrian.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    A song of believing

    • Brian Doyle
    • 14 May 2006

    Brian Doyle’s grace notes on the joys of everyday life.  

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    One cat, burned also

    • Brian Doyle
    • 11 May 2006

    Brian Doyle on community.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    On taking to the bed

    • Brian Doyle
    • 11 May 2006
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    Refuge, retreat and redemption

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    How we wrestle is who we are

    • Brian Doyle
    • 08 May 2006

    Brian Doyle considers who we are and what we might become

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    All is grace

    • Christopher Gleeson
    • 30 April 2006

    Chris Gleeson investigates Brian Doyle’s The wet engine: Exploring the mad wild miracle of the heart.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Paws for reflection

    • Brian Doyle
    • 24 April 2006

    Brian Doyle succumbs to puppy love.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The child as verb

    • Brian Doyle
    • 21 April 2006

    Brian Doyle on miraculousness.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Going to jail

    • Brian Doyle
    • 20 April 2006

    Brian  Doyle on incarceration, American style.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Brian Matthews

    • Brian Matthews

    Brian Matthews writes the By the Way column for Eureka Street. Brian is honorary Professor of English at Flinders University, Adelaide where he taught for 25 years and was awarded Flinders' first Personal Chair in English. He was Fulbright Scholar in Residence at the University of Oregon, 1986, and subsequently held visiting professorships at the universities of Trento, Venice and Bologna. He was head of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies and professor of Australian studies at the University of London, 1993–96. In 1997 he became foundation director of the Europe Australia Institute at Victoria University, Melbourne. As a writer of biography, fiction and memoir and as a columnist for the Weekend Australian Magazine and Eureka Street, he has won numerous

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