Linda Jaivin
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'The Hall of Uselessness' By Simon Leys
Linda Jaivin
The Hall of Uselessness, a compendium of Simon Leys’s cultural and political commentary, is an elegant mansion of many rooms, connected by...
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Travel Special
Holiday on Ice: Linda Jaivin on Harbin, China
Linda Jaivin
“Five bus tickets, one turkey and one lamb, please.” My friend then turns to the rest of us: “Karmically speaking, we’re going to hell.”...
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The Monthly Essays
A Nobel Affair: Liu Xiaobo
Linda Jaivin
When I last checked, over 1 million readers had viewed this cryptic message. Among the more than 25,000 comments, the multiple effusions (“...
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'How to Make Gravy' By Paul Kelly
Linda Jaivin
From little things, big things grow: asked to perform four nights in a row at The Famous Spiegeltent in Melbourne in 2004, singer–...
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'Ilustrado' by Miguel Syjuco
Linda Jaivin
The body of Crispin Salvador, a somewhat passé Filipino writer living in America, is discovered floating down the Hudson River. His student...
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'The Family Law' by Benjamin Law
Linda Jaivin
Tolstoy was wrong: not all happy families are alike. As portrayed in this very funny collection of personal essays by Benjamin Law, the...
More ...'Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism' by Natasha Walter
Linda Jaivin
Swaddled in princess pink, tottering towards adolescence on their training heels, many young girls today are growing up in the plastic, not...
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'The Pregnant Widow' by Martin Amis
Linda Jaivin
“It sometimes seemed to Keith that the English novel … asked only one question. Will she fall? Will she fall, this woman?” But in Martin...
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The Nation Reviewed
Haiku Hikers
Linda Jaivin
We've come to the Telegraph Station, four kilometres north of Alice Springs, for a welcome to country by Marie, an Arrernte elder and...
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In bed with 'Chinese' Morrison. Linda Jaivin, ANU
Linda Jaivin
Linda Jaivin's new novel, A Most Immoral Woman focuses on an obsessive sexual relationship which great Australian overlander and China...
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