'Globalisation' and 'crisis'. The words chime throughout this book. And rightly so. My contribution adds some notions that are complementary but not identical, namely 'complex parochialism' and 'definitive instability'. The ...

Ross Gibson builds a literary bridge between two Sydney publications that appeared at the time of the building of the harbour bridge and ponders the fate of Sydney in the light of their visions.

IN the BBC-TV history of rock'n'roll, Dancing in the Street (1996), Iggy Pop tells a story about how he hit upon the Stooges' sound. It was the late 1960s.A loner kid from trailer parks outside Detroit, he'd started out ...