Maria Tumarkin
Maria Tumarkin is a Melbourne-based historian and writer. She is a research fellow at the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University of Technology. Her books include Otherland, Courage and Traumascapes.
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'Against Remembrance' By David Rieff
Maria Tumarkin
In the last decade of the twentieth century American journalist David Rieff was in Bosnia covering the war. His mother, the late Susan...
More ...Folded Brains, Squashed Ambitions: Peter Carey’s 'Theft: A Love Story'
Maria Tumarkin
In Theft, Peter Carey puts pure poetry into the mouths of two big, red-blooded, raving sons of a butcher from Bacchus Marsh. Carey...
More ...Together Apart: Eavesdropping on Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
Maria Tumarkin
A friend of mine was once married to a Russian musician, the lead singer of a band who subsequently became widely known in Russia, you...
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Love Story. A vision of a world where adults and children are equals: 'Motherhood' by Anne Manne
Maria Tumarkin
Before my daughter Billie was born almost nine years ago, there were all kinds of ways to insult me:Jenny Craig dropout; boring; mediocre;...
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