August 2008
WORLD
In the Wake of Magellan: The Voyage of Globalisation’s Forefather
Simon Leys
First, though Magellan was indeed Portuguese, he sailed for Spain - personally commissioned by Charles V. His foreign origin provoked...
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CULTURE
Isabel Letham & Duke Kahanamoku
On Thursday, 24 December 1914, an athletic young Hawaiian strode across the beach at Freshwater, a stretch of sand between Manly and Curl...
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‘The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn: Colour Photographs from a Lost Age’ by David Okuefuna
Alexandra Coghlan
The Buddhist monk aflame in Saigon of 1963; the mushroom cloud of the Nagasaki atom bomb; September 11's Falling Man: the familiar...
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‘Bright Air’ by Barry Maitland
Barry Jones
Bright Air is Barry Maitland's tenth novel and the first with a local setting. His earlier novels, all police procedurals, feature...
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‘Tales from Outer Suburbia’ by Shaun Tan
Danielle Wood
Shaun Tan's publisher shelves Tales from Outer Suburbia as Young Adult Fiction, while a local bookshop of mine has wedged its copies of...
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In Search of Essence: Clive Hamilton’s ‘The Freedom Paradox’
Pete Hay
Clive Hamilton is one of the dissenting intellectuals that the Right loves to hate. He may not be not quite up there with Robert Manne, but...
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Back to College: The Hampdens & Vampire Weekend
Robert Forster
Who knew the different ways to sing "Louis Vuitton", and that the French designer's name would appear twice in songs from young bands in...
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Children of the Revolutions: Sixteenth Biennale of Sydney
Juliana Engberg
As Wordsworth once wrote: "There's something in a flying horse / There's something in a huge balloon." And while there's no record of WW...
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Horrorshow: Michael Haneke’s ‘Funny Games’
Luke Davies
"And when he overcomes the gravitational forces, it turns out that one universe is real and the other is fiction." Two young men, barely...
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Sir Donald Bradman at 100: The Serious Australian
Gideon Haigh
Still the most compelling aspect of the legend is The Average. One hundred is not the maximum possible arithmetic mean score in cricket,...
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Levelling with China
Linda Jaivin
It was my first visit to Beijing, some 28 years ago. Chairman Mao had died in 1976; two years later, the new Communist leadership under...
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SOCIETY
The Wanderer
Robyn Davidson
"‘So what of this notion of exile?'‘No,' he says, ‘exile is too pretty a word. Can you reframe that?'‘Homelessness?'‘No, that's wrong -...
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WORLD
On the Edge
Kate Rossmanith
On a Friday afternoon in late spring last year, a young woman tumbled 15 metres off a cliff top at north Coogee, in Sydney. Within minutes...
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SOCIETY
The Ring Cycle
Craig Sherborne
"How do I look?" my mother asks."You look beautiful," say the nurses. "Quite the stunner, young lady." She looks every day her 84: crumpled...
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SOCIETY
Ponyboy at 55
Robyn Annear
"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride...
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Comment: Hotting Up
Robert Manne
During the past several weeks I have been reading, with a racing pulse, some recent literature on global warming while watching, with a...
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