Kate Jennings
The Monthly Essays
Water Under the Bridge: A Guide to the Murray Darling Basin
Kate Jennings
Settle down. I insulted the Greens on purpose to get your attention. Green-ish myself. Climate change? Happening. Melting poles, warming...
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Kate Jennings
Every road leads to a reckoning. In Olivier Assayas’ movie Carlos, the Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez – AKA Carlos the Jackal...
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The Monthly Essays
An Otter's Life: Learning to Swim
Kate Jennings
For our summer holidays, we surfed every year for six weeks at Narrabeen. My brother and my city cousin, Stephen, and I formed a feral and...
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Making trouble. Kate Jennings and Shelley Gare
Kate Jennings
Part 1 | Part 2 Speaking at the Sydney Institute, writers and provocateurs Kate Jennings and Shelley Gare tackle the subject of 'Trouble -...
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Clueless: Michael Lewis’ 'The Big Short'
Kate Jennings
The financial crisis marked its dismal second anniversary in March. In the US, 3 million households are expected to be served with...
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Easy Rider: Frederick Seidel's 'Ooga-Booga and Poems: 1959-2009'
Kate Jennings
For your consideration: “A naked woman my age is just a total nightmare.” Now there’s a rip-snorting line of poetry if there ever was one....
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Home Truths: Revisiting 'Wake in Fright'
Kate Jennings
The plot of Wake in Fright is as old as an outcropping west of Menindee. As old as Virgil:The way downward is easy from Avernus.Black Dis’s...
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Kate Jennings, in conversation with Elliot Perlman. Readings
Kate Jennings talks about her life's writing, in particular her new memoir Stanley and Sophie, with Elliot Perlman.Readings Carlton....
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