Drusilla Modjeska
Art, Arts & Letters
Bodying Forth: Alice Neel and Louise Bourgeois
Drusilla Modjeska
The bodies of old women are rarely celebrated in art, and representations of them are few. The faces of older women who’ve achieved status...
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Ever Unforgiven: Craig Sherborne’s 'The Amateur Science of Love'
Drusilla Modjeska
In 2008 Craig Sherborne wrote an essay for the Monthly on the death of his first wife from breast cancer. The title was ‘Unforgiven’. In it...
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Travel Special
In the Fjords: Drusilla Modjeska on Tufi, Papua New Guinea
Drusilla Modjeska
Back from Tufi for less than a month, I find myself thinking I should cancel this article, keep the place a secret and let those who think...
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Books, Arts & Letters
Under the Bridge: Delia Falconer’s 'Sydney'
Drusilla Modjeska
Returning to Sydney can be an ambivalent experience. And it was for me, this winter, after three months in London. Ducks were swimming on...
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The Death of the Good Father
Drusilla Modjeska
In Granta’s anthology called Fathers, published at the end of last year there’s a tough little story from New Zealand’s Kirsty Gunn. It’s...
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Reunion: Andrea Goldsmith in conversation with Drusilla Modjeska
Drusilla Modjeska
Part 1 | Part 2Andrea Goldsmith talks about poetry, fiction, science, death and her new book Reunion with Drusilla Modjeska, at the Sydney...
More ...Arise!: Philip Roth’s 'Indignation'
Drusilla Modjeska
When, in 1951, Philip Roth affixed decals to the rear of his father's Chevy - "one proclaiming the name of my new university, the other the...
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Between a Muddle & a Mystery: Brian Dibble’s 'Doing Life'
Drusilla Modjeska
If, by her own admission, order was not a "strong point" for Elizabeth Jolley, it is a badge of honour for her biographer, Brian Dibble....
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A Husk of Meaning: What Happened to Community?
Drusilla Modjeska
Thirty years ago or so, the word packed a punch. It's hard to imagine now. In London during the '70s, I fell in with a rather wonderful...
More ...Letters in the Sand: Lloyd Jones’s 'Mister Pip'
Drusilla Modjeska
There's more than one way to read a book. On the front cover of Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip (Text Publishing, 220pp; $29.95), which is...
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