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Philosophic Emissions: Roger Scruton’s 'Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously about the Planet'

Peter Singer

Climate change is a threat to us all but it poses a particular difficulty for those who, like English philosopher Roger Scruton, are on the...

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CULTURE

Citizen Kael: Brian Kellow’s 'Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark'

Christos Tsiolkas

The day after I finished reading Brian Kellow’s Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark (Viking, 432pp; $39.00), I watched John Cassavetes’ Faces...

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WORLD

'The Chemistry of Tears' By Peter Carey

Jennifer Byrne

In the peaty depths of Germany’s Black Forest, nineteenth-century English gentleman Henry Brandling commissions a giant clockwork automaton...

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WORLD

The Politics of News: David McKnight’s 'Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Power'

David Marr

Australian journalists have a sad history of going off to Washington to be ruined. They leave home the hope of the side but after a visit...

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CULTURE

No One Comes To See Me Now: Manoly Lascaris and Patrick White’s ghost

Debra Adelaide

Three days a week, in the winter of 1993, I would drive the children to day care and continue to 20 Martin Road, Centennial Park. The house...

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CULTURE

Gumbo: Allen Toussaint and New Orleans

Paul Kelly

My job as a singer–songwriter often involves being interviewed. One of the questions I’m asked most frequently, up there with “What comes...

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Japan

The Bride Wore Black: Akira Isogawa

Peter Robb

Think ‘dress designer’ and what comes to mind? Not a whole lot of fun. Think of the last picture you saw of Karl Lagerfeld or John Galliano...

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CULTURE

'Outland' by Kevin Carlin

Benjamin Law

On paper, the premise of the new ABC1 sitcom Outland seems too self-consciously quirky for its own good. Homosexuals and sci-fi nerds?...

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CULTURE

Fred Schepisi & Vladimir Putin

As Fred Schepisi was whisked along the Rublyovka highway, past luxury car showrooms and Gucci boutiques, he reflected on how much Moscow...

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20 Australian Masterpieces Since 2000

The Monthly

FASHION Romance Was Born ‘The Oracle’, 2011  ‘The Oracle’, the fifth major show by two Sydney-based iconoclasts, initially had...

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CULTURE

The Kid Grows Up: Meeting Alex Dimitriades

Peter Robb

Nearing 40, a man’s body begins to die. The body knows this. So does the mind, though it can take a long time before the mind knows what it...

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SOCIETY

'The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia' By Bill Gammage

James Boyce

Modern environmental sensibility has not increased the number of Australians who are able to imagine what our dominant homelands – the...

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An Auteur Planet: Pedro Almodóvar’s 'The Skin I Live In' and Lars von Trier’s 'Melancholia'

Peter Conrad

Ah, to be an auteur, with the power to impose your own kinked or crazy worldview on reality! Pleasing only yourself, you can cosmetically...

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CULTURE

'Foal’s Bread' By Gillian Mears

Carmen Callil

Gillian Mears’s new novel tells the story of the Nancarrow family of One Tree Farm, subsistence farmers in rural New South Wales. Its...

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CULTURE

Treasure in the Attic: The golden age of singer–songwriters

Robert Forster

As far as romantic professions go, it’s up there with lighthouse-keeping, lion-taming or jobbing as a private detective in Los Angeles in...

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POLITICS

New Labor Dreaming: Troy Bramston’s 'Looking for the Light on the Hill'

Maxine McKew

Coming from New South Wales, a state that has made an artform of decapitating leaders, Bramston doesn’t always follow the logic of his own...

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The Other Biography: Jacqueline Kent's "The Making of Julia Gillard"

Christine Wallace

If attention from biographers augurs well for a politician’s career, then Julia Gillard looks good for the Lodge when Kevin Rudd’s day is...

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WORLD

When the Centre Cannot Hold: Joan Didion’s 'Blue Nights'

Inga Clendinnen

Along with many others, I was first drawn to Joan Didion when I read her 1967 essay ‘Slouching towards Bethlehem’. It presented a...

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WORLD

'Caleb’s Crossing' By Geraldine Brooks

Kirsten Tranter

Caleb’s Crossing extends Geraldine Brooks’s interest in the early history of the United States, first explored in her Pulitzer Prize–...

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SOCIETY

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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