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ON LOVE, SEX & DESIRE
Vol. 66, no. 1, 2007
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[Editorial]

Ian Britain 1 Meanjin on LSD

[Novella]

Margaret Innes 106 China

[Cinema]

Brian McFarlane 29 Strange Fits of Passion
On love’s many faces in Heading South, Notes on a Scandal, Breaking and Entering and Miss Potter

[Interviews]

John Heard 96 Two Hours before the Master
Talking to Edmund White

Carla Sari 150 Aspects of Love
Talking to Robert Dessaix

[Essays and Review Essays]

John Armstrong 3 The Heart of Desire
A philosopher reflects on the perils of sexual fulfilment

Maree Jones 10 You Can’t Always Get What You Want
The pitfalls of internet dating

James Ley 19 Truly? Madly? Deeply?
Takes on love in recent novels by Kate Legge and Rodney Hall

John Rickard 38 Sentimental Blokes
A historian on homoeroticism in Australian mateship

Garry Wotherspoon 47 Exploring Love
Matthew Flinders and George Bass: did they or didn’t they?

Ann-Marie Priest 58 Married Sex
On D.H. Lawrence, champion of the role of sexual passion in conjugal relations

Michael Ackland 72 Love and the Great Beyond
On Henry Handel Richardson and the beliefs sustaining her love of spouse and family beyond the grave

Michael Ackland 78 For Love Alone
On Christina Stead’s correspondence with her American spouse

Desley Deacon 83 An Affair to Remember
On the New York romance between writers Mary McCarthy and Philip Rahv

Lucy Dougan 172 What Comes to Hand
On poetry’s capacities for exploring a range of desires and bodily experiences

Peter Rose 178 The Yellow of Unlove
On love, poetry and obsession

Brian Castro 185 Written Kisses
A novelist measures the power of words as a form and conveyor of intimacy

Beverley Farmer 199 Eros in Dreamland
On the shifting configurations of love, desire and intimacy in the work of various artists

Leigh Redhead 205 Féministes Fatales
What is‘tart noir’? A striptease artist who doubles as a detective writer 
uncovers this new genre.

Marion Halligan 209 Love, actually
How novelists give truth to the emotions they convey

[Memoirs]

Stuart Cooke 159 One Night with Chinta
An encounter with a transsexual provides a glimpse of a new world of desire

Lachlan Strahan 215 Fathers and Sons
On the emotional bonds and tensions between three generations of Australian men

Anne Sedgley 226 In Fealty to a Professor
How a legendary English teacher imbued a passion not just for his subject but also for the Australian landscape

[Poetry]

Martin Langford 9 At the Olympics: Handball

Mani Rao27 Star-crossed

Jimmy Andrews 28 All Along the Wet Plaza

Siobhan Harvey37 Cactus

John Millett 53 Ménage à Trois

Philip Hammial 54 Bridal Suite

John Foulcher 55 Prenuptials; 
57 Postnuptial

Kevin Hart 67 Colloquies

Michael Crane 158 This Demon

Ron Pretty 171 To Wake

Toby Fitch 177 Floe

Lucy Holt 189 My Lover Meets the Bower Bird

Craig Powell 190 On a Line from Kiarostami

Craig Billingham 191 The Eighth Day

Benjamin Cornford 194 Shutting Traps

Kate Waterhouse 196 The Knot

Win Weir 198 Truce

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