Delia Falconer
Books, Noted
'Sarah Thornhill' By Kate Grenville
Delia Falconer
Each of the three books in Kate Grenville’s loose trilogy – The Secret River (2005), The Lieutenant (2008) and now Sarah Thornhill – is an...
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The Nation Reviewed
The Bird Man and Mrs Gluck: A Kings Cross Identity
Delia Falconer
The parks of my Sydney childhood are disappearing: their secret shades, old plantings and narrow paths almost all gone now, as the City of...
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Books, Arts & Letters
'Hand Me Down World' By Lloyd Jones
Delia Falconer
“I was with her at the first hotel on the Arabian Sea. That was for two years. Then at the hotel in Tunisia for three years. At the first...
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Television
Connective Tissue: 'Tangle' (Season Two) and 'Spirited'
Delia Falconer
All the bullies I remember from school had Ben Mendelsohn’s build: heavy-legged, thick-armed and slightly soft around the middle. Or...
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Books, Arts & Letters
The Public Mind: Bret Easton Ellis’ 'Imperial Bedrooms'
Delia Falconer
“Yeah!! Thank God he’s finally dead. I’ve been waiting for this day for-fucking-ever. Party tonight!!!” Bret Easton Ellis posted this Tweet...
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Delia Falconer
“I’ve been lucky to be considered a major writer by writing short stories,” Alice Munro told the Observer in 2005. And,...
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Train I Ride: Don Watson’s ‘American Journeys’
Delia Falconer
On YouTube, someone has posted a lovely compilation of the many train sequences in Yasujiro Ozu's films. Looking at this clip, you realise...
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The Nation Reviewed
Roadkill
Delia Falconer
It is a cold morning on the Tasman Peninsula, south of Hobart, and I am holding a dead wombat's paw. It is a surprisingly dainty thing, as...
More ...The Great Unspooler. Romeo meets Juliet in 'Kashmir': 'Shalimar the Clown' by Salman Rushdie
Delia Falconer
Toward the beginning of A Satanic Affair, his analysis of the furore caused by The Satanic Verses, Malise Ruthven tells the following story...
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