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Janette Turner Hospital in Conversation

The Wheeler Centre 6130642 Janette Turner Hospital, one of Australia's most admired writers, speaks on a lifetime of writing - and teaching - literature. For almost three decades, Janette ...

SlowTV - admin - 2012-05-16 12:00 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Understanding children, yet wanting them to grow up a bit

(Children's Literature, Maurice Sendak, New York Times) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-05-09 14:28 - 0 comments

The case for breaking up with your parents

(SOCIETY, Literature, Parenting, Chronicle of Higher Education) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-05-08 15:11 - 0 comments

'The Weight of a Human Heart' by Ryan O’Neill

or literature-obsessed (language teachers, writers, librarians, academics). A lot of them get it on with African, Chinese ...

The Monthly - Karen Hitchcock - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Comment: The Shock Jock Rule of Campbell Newman

the ‘premier’ award for literature in the Deep North sounds like something of which the deceased troglodyte ...

The Monthly - John Birmingham - 2012-05-03 11:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Anatomy of a Moment. Javier Cercas in Conversation

Cercas, one of Spanish literature's most celebrated writers tells host Javier Diaz about his ...

SlowTV - admin - 2012-05-01 10:09 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Romance novels, the last great bastion of underground literature

Romance novels, the last great bastion of underground literature " It would be crazy to fail to pay close attention when that many people ... (Literary criticism, Literature, Romantic fiction, The Awl) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-16 14:08 - 0 comments

Across the Great Divide

privatisation, Literature, Tertiary education) ...

The Monthly - Catherine Ford - 2012-04-05 16:50 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

That Blockhead Thing

Aztec Music’s Archaelogical Dig Richard Guilliatt The ’60s, so the saying goes, didn’t start in Australia unti ...

The Monthly - Richard Guilliatt - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Short cuts: On fact-checking

Short cuts: On fact-checking " Any bright girl who really applies herself to the handling of the checking problem can have a very pleasant time with it...  The most important point to rememb ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-30 14:43 - 0 comments

Show me the money

(Finance, Literature, Poetry, Financial Times) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-05 13:48 - 0 comments

Payback: The Bullying Tactics of the Murdoch Press

those who write for example on literature or military history or Australian nineteenth century gardens. ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-03-07 15:28 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

E-books can't burn

(Books, eBooks, Literature, New York Review of Books) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-16 14:06 - 0 comments

Stephen Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak

(Children's Literature, Indiewire) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-01-31 14:20 - 0 comments

Margaret Johnson

to read ‘old’ literature because they feel it is irrelevant to their lives. Margaret Johnson ...

Letters to the Editor - admin - 2012-01-30 08:40 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

What's wrong with the Nobel Prize in Literature?

What's wrong with the Nobel Prize in Literature? "All members are Swedish. On the present jury there are just five women. Only one member ... (Literature, Nobel prize, New York Review of Books) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-10-07 14:38 - 0 comments

The Monthly Appoints New Editor

of Tropical Queensland , was shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Prize for Australian Literature in 2004. ...

Blog - Monthly Wire - 2012-02-07 10:02 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

The Cypherpunk Revolutionary

was a specialist in medieval literature. Christine fell in love with a man called John Shipton in Sydney. A year ...

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

Tolkien, Twilight and fantasy for young adults

Tolkien, Twilight and fantasy for young adults "Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist, fights ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-11-30 13:59 - 0 comments

'Foal’s Bread' By Gillian Mears

(December 2011 - January 2012, Noted, Animals, Australian Literature, Gillian Mears, Historical fiction, ...

The Monthly - Carmen Callil - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Comment: Phoney Education

no characters in literature, those of Dickens included, whose lives are as bleak and impoverished ... and preserves culture”. This theme of the teacher and child is as old as literature itself (as is the theme of the cad and child, of course). But we don’t have to go to literature. Ask anyone from what they learned ...

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

The Life Not Lived

and dramatists in the English language. Ian Donaldson has taught Renaissance literature at Britain’s most august ... to review the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume II, 1660–1800 . Anonymously, ... took up my first and last academic appointment, a senior lectureship in English literature ...

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

This Helplessness

(December 2011 - January 2012, Summer Reading, Australian Literature, Coke, Fiction, Literature, Poker, ...

The Monthly - Steven Amsterdam - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Whirlpool

(December 2011 - January 2012, Summer Reading, Australian Literature, England, Fiction, Literature, Short ...

The Monthly - Cate Kennedy - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Three Boys

(three boys) (December 2011 - January 2012, Summer Reading, Australian Literature, Fiction, Football, Humour, Literature, Painting, Short fiction, Short Stories, Writing fiction) ...

The Monthly - Sonya Hartnett - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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