December 2007 - January 2008
CULTURE
Let the Bird Sing, Let the Bird Fly: Todd Haynes’s ‘I’m Not There’
Luke Davies
In No Direction Home, Martin Scorsese's 2005 documentary about Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg speaks of that time in the early '60s when...
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Peter Craven's Best Books for Summer 2007-08
Peter Craven
Julian Burnside, Watching Brief: Reflections on Human Rights, Law and Justice (Scribe, 320pp; $32.95). ISBN(13): 9781921215490.Julia Fox,...
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CULTURE
Kylie Minogue & Michael Hutchence
It was great while it lasted, according to Kylie. "I learnt a lot."They met at a bash after the Countdown Awards, the program's final show...
More ...SOCIETY
‘How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read’ by Pierre Bayard
Zora Simic
According to Pierre Bayard, a professor of literature at the University of Paris, you do not have to read books to be able to speak about...
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Genealogy
Craig Sherborne
I'll be dead and then they'll go through my things,the weak son who never complained when I mocked him,the daughter who wished me...
More ...The Usual
Craig Sherborne
Nose down in the froth of his clover beerthe grey horse sups alone.He ignores a butting calf with its patched coat,and the flitting tarts...
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Confession & Hits (Hits & Confession): Delta Goodrem’s ‘Delta’
Robert Forster
The first three album titles of Delta Goodrem's career provide a narrative of where she has come from and where she is now. Innocent...
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Reigning Bull: Alan Greenspan’s ‘The Age of Turbulence’
Gideon Haigh
A story is told of Arthur Burns, Eisenhower's chief economic adviser, appearing before a congressional committee on unemployment....
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Wunderbar: Oliver Sacks’s ‘Musicophilia’
Anna Goldsworthy
Some years ago, on a break from an extended piano tour, I spent a weekend on the Aran Islands, off the coast of Ireland. After weeks of...
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Sixty of the Best: The best books for summer
Peter Craven
Christmas is one of those times when the world gives books, almost as if a nostalgia for filling the mind with images suggested by words...
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Toots's Kismet: How Do Creatures Think?
Robyn Davidson
As I do. And have always done.I have studied them in the wild, worked with them, shared my homes with them. Though ‘pets' seems too...
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Mission Drift: A Report From Afghanistan
Chris Masters
My visit began in late May 2007. It was not yet summer, but at midnight the air-conditioning was still welcome. Over here even the tents...
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New Teeth for Aunty: Reinvigorating the National Broadcaster
Robert Manne
This outline of my daily routine should at least make one thing clear: the ABC plays a very important part in my life. As it does for very...
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SOCIETY
Dogs of War
Charles Firth
In the advertising business, there is a phenomenon called the Puppy Dog Effect. When a firm is pitching several different concepts for a...
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CULTURE
Buyer’s Market
Gay Bilson
Tasting Australia, a biennial event in Adelaide, is aptly named, for although it delivers a dizzying series of culinary entertainments for...
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SOCIETY
What a Pratt
James Kirby
The woman on the radio had called to complain. "I want to talk about Richard Pratt," she said. "I don't really understand what he did. But...
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SOCIETY
The Sense of Danger
Ann-Marie Priest
In an early episode of The Sopranos, the young gangster Christopher Moltisanti decides to take an acting-for-writers course to help him...
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SOCIETY
Society of Birds
Don Watson
EE Cummings prayed that his heart would always be open to little birds. My family, the maternal side especially, has always shared some of...
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SOCIETY
Dropping the Ball
Mungo MacCallum
About two and a half thousand years ago, the historian Herodotus records, the Persian tyrant Xerxes was rampaging through northern Greece...
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POLITICS
Comment
Judith Brett
Now that John Howard has finally gone, it is possible to start thinking about the future again. All through 2007, as it looked more and...
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