Amanda Lohrey
The Nation Reviewed
The Art of Ideas: Wim Delvoye at MONA
Amanda Lohrey
The phenomenon that is Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is a Plato’s cave of multi-layered subterranean space where shadows of the...
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Art, Arts & Letters
High Priest: David Walsh and Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art
Amanda Lohrey
The Moorilla estate is set on a peninsula of sandstone cliffs that juts out into the Derwent estuary on Hobart’s northern fringe. Framed to...
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The morality of mortality. Hosted by Phillip Adams
Part 1 | Part 2 Is death something to be feared or embraced? Broadcaster Phillip Adams chairs this discussion with barrister Julian...
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Amanda Lohrey
The Powerhouse is not atypical; it exists within a broader museum culture in Australia that tends toward the lacklustre and the disjointed...
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The Nation Reviewed
Pigs Might Fly
Amanda Lohrey
On a recent trip to Sydney I was urged by friends to visit a new butcher shop in the wealthy suburb of Woollahra. At first I was resistant...
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‘So This Is Life: Tales from a Country Childhood’ by Anne Manne
Amanda Lohrey
Accounts of adult lives often lapse into flat chronicle mode. They can be partial in their truths – when not downright evasive – and...
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The short story: Amanda Lohrey, Robert Drewe, Chimamanda Adichie
Part 1 | Part 2 Novellas and short stories versus the novel: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Robert Drewe and Amanda Lohrey have all written...
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A Proper Wedding
Amanda Lohrey
I could not remember another time when a newsreader had been elevated above bishops at an important state memorial service, yet no one in...
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'Dissection' by Jacinta Halloran
Amanda Lohrey
Jacinta Halloran is a Melbourne medical practitioner, as is the heroine of her first novel, Dissection. Anna McBride is 43, a competent GP...
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Unhappy Endings: Annie Proulx’s ‘Fine Just the Way It Is’
Amanda Lohrey
The celebrated American writer Annie Proulx is now in her seventies, and it's possible to look back on her impressive list of publications...
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