The Monthly Essays
A dinner date with Billy Snedden
There was once a speaker of the Australian parliament who loved to travel overseas, and who especially enjoyed the sensual benefits that taxpayer-provided travel could deliver.
It was the end of the Haight-Ashbury rock ’n’ roll era in San Francisco. I was living there with my young family, on California and Laguna
The author of ‘This House of Grief’ and ‘Joe Cinque’s Consolation’ on writing about darkness
When you’re driving a bus full of tourists through the Australian outback, a packet of chewing gum may be your only hope
