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Staphan so tried to keep up with his brother when they were young, ripping speed controls from carts at father’s exotic golf course. Then came sports cars and partying around gel tubs. But what he knew his brother did, like with girls after those parties, plagues Staphan to this day. Especially...

The clearly focused lyrics of Les Murray's Waiting for the Past are rich in topographies and the languages peculiar to them —wonga vines, lyre birds, gum trees, shrike thrushes, tallow boughs, boab trees, the octopus in Wylies Baths killed by sterilising chlorine. With the erasures the modern world...

In 1988, shortly after moving from Sydney back to his birthplace in the rural New South Wales hamlet of Bunyah, Les Murray was struck with depression. In the months that followed, the "Black Dog" (as he calls it) ruled his life. He raged at his wife and children. He ducked a parking ticket...

When faced with any member of the medical profession, your author does not demonstrate that British ideal of a stiff upper lip. Oh no, as recounted here he becomes a big gibbering coward, afraid of needles. He's been sliced open, several times, stitched back up again and had those stitches taken out...

L'histoire moderne de l'Iran, vieil empire multiethnique, devenu au fil du XXe siècle (sous la dynastie pahlavi puis sous la République islamique) un État-nation centralisé, présente quelques constantes remarquables. Les relations de domination puis de rejet des puissances ...

La littérature italienne est d'un abord difficile et exige toujours un effort particulier du lecteur. Parmi les plus grands écrivains, on n'en trouve que très peu qu'on puisse prendre à livre ouvert, et lire pour le plaisir de lire …

L'alternative pour une œuvre d'art consiste à rester enfermée dans le goût de la période où elle est née – et alors elle est inféconde, rigide, incommunicable à la postérité qui la trouve ennuyeuse et même ridicule – ou à être capable d'aborder les futurs. Il lui faut alors subir...

Dans l'histoire de l'Asie, le Japon occupe une place particulière du fait de son insularité. On l'a souvent comparée à celle de l'Angleterre dans l'histoire de l'Europe. Mais cette similitude géographique ne doit pas masquer les dissemblances qui, de fait, ont donné au Japon l'élément essentiel de …

À la charnière de l'Europe occidentale et de l'Europe centrale, dispersant ses eaux vers l'Adriatique, la mer du Nord et la mer Noire, la Suisse multiplie les contrastes géographiques. État continental enclavé, elle est cependant très largement ouverte aux courants du trafic international dont …

WAITING FOR AL You’re standing on the corner waiting for Al, then decide to step inside Jerry’s bar and hoist a brew while keeping an eye out for Al. You watch this kid trying to come inside, but always, at the last minute, he hesitates, then walks away. You wonder, what’s his problem? A...

Sam August loves to sit at Joe Lee’s bar on the channel between Clear Lake and the Gulf of Mexico on Saturdays watching sailboats heading out for a day of fun on the Gulf. He was having a beer and kibitzing with his favorite waitress, Suzzi, when the bar phone rang. She answered, then with a puzzled...

A BREATH OF SPRING Early spring in New York; warming days and cool nights. Banjoist, Dave Harding, having finished a gig at Maxies with a Dixieland band, was walking to get fresh air in his lungs. He had no intention of being a good Samaritan, but it happened when he discovered a girl lying...

How to make the thorns in your marriage come up roses.The big and little annoyances in your marriage are actually opportunities to deepen your love for each other. Relationship experts and award-winning authors Les and Leslie Parrott believe that your personal quirks and differences—where you squeeze...

A fresh selection of the finest poems—some previously uncollected—by one of our finest English-language poets Why write poetry? For the weird unemployment. For the painless headaches, that must be tapped to strike down along your writing arm at the accumulated moment. For the adjustments...