Josephine Rowe

is the author of three story collections and two novels, including Little World.

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Culture July 08, 2023

New year of the trees

“Even on gentle days, waves thrash up the front beach without ceasing. But the estuary is a flat, bright thread of quicksilver that advances and retreats, traversed by geese overhead and stingrays below. Bits of your old life resurfacing, as if: Ready …

Culture May 06, 2023

Fake water, 1986

“Four nights a week he sits in the dismal concierge cage and fills postcards to Sydney; a junk store haul of faded linen scenes showing The Palisades, The Chrysler, Cleo’s Needle, and woodsy upstate hamlets he’ll never visit, won’t …”

Culture June 05, 2021

Living memory

“For a time we moved into the [_____] memorial. Many had died, but we were not among them. Some among us had come closer than we would like to remember, but to not remember seemed a small destruction. There were no names inscribed on the [_____] memorial. …”

Travel August 25, 2018

Anacapri, Italy

High above Capri’s busy Marina Grande, ornithologists use the spectacular vantage of the ruins of Castello Barbarossa to catch and observe migratory birds

Portrait June 17, 2017

Tasmanian forest track-builders

Tasmanians Christo Mills and David Bretz on moving from the blockade to the pathway.

Travel September 10, 2016

Finding solace amid Iceland’s tourism boom

Amid the violent geology of Iceland, with its volcanoes and hot geysers it is the stillness that lingers in the memory.

Travel April 16, 2016

Change they might believe in, in Havana

Change is coming to Cuba, but in Havana on the eve of Barack Obama’s visit, they still don't know what form it will take.