Michelle de Kretser The publication of an unfinished draft is the writer’s version of that nightmare in which you find yourself naked in the street. Writers donate manuscripts to libraries, of course, but there is usually a finished work to offset ...

The Monthly - Michelle de Kretser - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Blue. Lo and behold, in the State Library of New South Wales was a portrait in oils done in 1834 ...

The Monthly - Cassandra Pybus - 2012-05-01 09:34 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

recently discovered a copy in the library of the university where I work. It's a deeply strange ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-21 13:52 - 0 comments

Library, Opera, Pauline Kael, Theatre) ...

The Monthly - Christos Tsiolkas - 2012-02-08 15:11 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

more than 3 million houses foreclosed on since the end of the housing boom in 2006, municipal libraries ...

The Monthly - Julia Baird - 2012-02-07 16:17 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

libraries. He did, however, attend very many schools. According to Dreyfus, by the time Mendax was fifteen he ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

a tram. The modern phone combines all the qualities of a library, a university and a Swiss Army knife. ... the library for the knowledge to be found in it. Maybe the scaffolding had a flaw, but after five years ... Library, Literature, Mobile Phones, Poetry, Smartphones, Wikipedia) ...

The Monthly - Don Watson - 2011-12-05 08:04 - 3 comments - 0 attachments

a nude in the Titian portrait that hangs on his wall. Von Trier’s characters also leaf through a library ... (December 2011 - January 2012, Arts & Letters, CULTURE, Che Guevara, Lars von Trier, Library ...

The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2011-12-13 15:28 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Library. After delivering the Panizzi Lectures at the British Library in 1985, McKenzie was considered ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The books had been bequeathed to the Mitchell Library, but they too were to remain in the house for as long ...

The Monthly - Debra Adelaide - 2012-01-20 08:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Parliamentary Library . Such a concentration of press ownership situation was not merely risible; ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-11-29 13:39 - 4 comments - 3 attachments

The State Library of Victoria’s Card Catalogue ... Library of Victoria’s old card catalogue (‘catalogue’ not ‘catalogues’: though it fills many cabinets, its ... of the library’s main reference hall, it comes as a shock to find it relegated to so ignominious a spot. Yet its ...

The Monthly - Robyn Annear - 2011-09-02 15:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

floor, is about half the size of a small one-car garage. Glenn keeps his files and working library just ... Library, Rainforest, The Games) ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2011-10-06 12:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of Umbrellas in Leicester she spent time in a local library investigating Boadicea’s last battle, which ... David Bowie, Energy, Feminism, Germany, Jazz, Library, Theatre, University of Melbourne) ...

The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2011-10-06 12:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

I met the former belly dancer at Mr Tulk, the buzzy cafe inside the State Library of Victoria. ...

The Monthly - Anne Summers - 2011-10-11 16:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

a show-off with no voice, a nobody in a new land. By day he worked in the British Library on the great novel ...

The Monthly - David Marr - 2011-09-29 10:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

But Mr Darcy, shouldn't we be taking precautions? "Close your library and save 10 local women from unplanned pregnancy." Not Editors Choice Tuesday, 12 July ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-14 10:09 - 0 comments

Bob Herbert's last column: Losing our way "So here we are pouring shiploads of cash into yet another war, while simultaneously demolishing school budgets, closing libraries, laying off teachers and police officers." ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:22 - 0 comments

psychologically limited perspective. The scene in which Bethia is granted admission to John Harvard’s library ... that the library is based on those at Cambridge, England – “from whence our two presidents come” – as well as how ... a great deal about the attributes of the Harvard library but little about what, exactly, it has meant ...

The Monthly - Kirsten Tranter - 2011-05-05 12:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Rodney Hall The greatest ancient library in the world is being unearthed ... expelled from Spain by Queen Isabella’s army, gathered up the precious libraries of Islamic manuscripts ... Norwegian scholars, beavering away in Oslo in the late 1990s, tracked the library down. Recovery is now ...

The Monthly - Rodney Hall - 2011-05-05 12:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

For reasons unknown, a library in central Stockholm has a tank full of piranhas – the quest took me ... Library, Travel) ...

The Monthly - Sonya Hartnett - 2011-05-13 16:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

State Library of NSW 2842344 Part 1 | Part 2 At the National Biography Award Lecture at the State Library of New South ... and autobiography. State Library of NSW, November 2009 2009-11-01 ...

SlowTV - Raimond Gaita - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

State Library of NSW 2842285 Part 1 | Part 2 At the National Biography Award Lecture at the State Library of New South Wales, ... and autobiography. State Library of NSW, November 2009 2009-11-01 ...

SlowTV - Raimond Gaita - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

left hundreds of books on flying stacked behind the library’s glass cabinet doors. Tyringham’s current ... (the library, for example) but the drawing room, with floor-to-ceiling bay windows, was blighted ...

The Monthly - Robyn Davidson - 2011-05-05 12:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Parliamentary Library. Almost 3000 of them were Afghans. It’s little wonder. The United Nations says 2010 ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-09-05 12:57 - 1 comment - 0 attachments