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'The Mountain' by Drusilla Modjeska

Robyn Annear

It comes as a surprise to realise that The Mountain is Drusilla Modjeska’s first novel, since her writing – acclaimed and awarded as non-...

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CULTURE

A Cad and a Gentleman: Michael Winterbottom’s 'Trishna' and David and Stéphane Foenkinos' 'Delicacy'

Luke Davies

Michael Winterbottom, the British director, has made upwards of 20 feature films in little more than 25 years, as well as some...

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

Karen Hitchcock

The 21 stories in Ryan O’Neill’s new collection are tied together by a preoccupation with language. There are books, magazines, word games...

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CULTURE

Truganini & George Augustus Robinson

By 1829, Truganini was running out of options. Her mother had been stabbed to death by a sailor, her uncle shot by a soldier, her mother-in...

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CULTURE

Bird-brained: Tim Birkhead’s 'Bird Sense: What It’s Like to Be a Bird'

Robyn Davidson

Had nature not evolved birds, would we dream of flight? Would we be sufficiently inspired by the dragonfly, the butterfly, the bee? No...

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CULTURE

Hurtling Stone: Meeting theatre director Simon Stone

Benjamin Law

If director–playwright Simon Stone were to write himself into one of his plays, his entrance would read:   SIMON STONE, a scruffy man...

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CULTURE

Randy House: EL James’ 'Fifty Shades of Grey'

Malcolm Knox

When a new book series emerges from the swill of online fan fiction to sell 250,000 copies, dominate the New York Times e-book bestseller...

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'Save What You Can: The Day of The Triffids' by Bleddyn Butcher

John Kinsella

Since the broader recognition of Born Sandy Devotional as one of the great Australian albums, there have been several publications relating...

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CULTURE

Wave of Song: Jane Birkin’s world tour, 'Jane Birkin Sings Serge Gainsbourg'

Robert Forster

She speaks in English between songs and sings in French, pleasing the two largest nationalities of her public. Her English retains traces...

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MEDIA

'Wish You Were Here' by Kieran Darcy-Smith

Mandy Sayer

In cinema, no happy holiday can go unpunished. Wish You Were Here opens with a fast-paced prologue set in Cambodia, a riot of images and...

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CULTURE

A White Cube in a Black Box: Denton Corker Marshall’s design for Australia’s new Venice Biennale pavilion

Deyan Sudjic

Ask John Denton, of the architecture firm Denton Corker Marshall, which he likes best of the score or so of national pavilions that fill...

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CULTURE

A Port for the Soul: Aki Kaurismäki’s 'Le Havre'

Helen Garner

A watchman strolling late one night on the wharves of the French port of Le Havre raps his stick on the side of a container, and hears the...

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CULTURE

'The Hanging Garden' by Patrick White

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...

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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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SOCIETY

On a Mission: John Strehlow’s 'The Tale of Frieda Keysser'

Peter Sutton

Among a right-thinking crowd you can still get a laugh with a missionary joke. At the 2008 conference of the Association of Social...

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MEDIA

As Robert Was Saying: In conversation with Robert Dessaix

Gail Bell

Robert Dessaix refers to the heart attack that almost ended his life in July 2011 as “the emergency”. “I’m not interested in the physical...

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CULTURE

Sydney Gets a Laneway: The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

Drusilla Modjeska

Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art on Circular Quay West re-opened on 29 March with a new wing, as the Museum of Contemporary Art...

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CULTURE

Gough Whitlam & Enoch Powell

At the 1938 ceremony for the conferring of degrees in the Faculties of Arts and Law at the University of Sydney, the address was given by...

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CULTURE

Age of Innocence: Frank Moorhouse’s 'Cold Light'

David Marr

Edith Campbell Berry has crashed to earth in Canberra circa 1950. She is no longer wanted abroad. All her years at the League of Nations...

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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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