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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table... →
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their... →
I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I... →
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of... →
Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck... →
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years with your lives intertwined, but... →
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting... →
Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake over and over again.... →
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts.... →
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