November 2006
British Rules: Why we're still more English than American
Gideon Haigh
It was a big story for a while, although it was more an unexpectedly extreme version of an acknowledged phenomenon than something...
More ...POLITICS
Howard’s Brutopia: The battle of ideas in Australian politics
Kevin Rudd
Yet the culture war is essentially a cover for the real battle of ideas in Australian politics today: the battle between free-market...
More ...Lionel Rose & Elvis Presley
Shane Maloney
Lionel Rose was nearing the end of a hard training session when he got the message that Elvis Presley wanted to meet him. It was December...
More ...‘North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs Volume IV’ By Clive James
Chris Middendorp
Near the conclusion of the third volume of his memoirs, May Week Was in June, Clive James argued memorably that constructing a decent...
More ...Resistible: Ann Turner’s 'Irresistible'
Adrian Martin
One of the things that immediately gives away mediocre Australian films is their ill-chosen titles. Irresistible: a snappy, intriguing hook...
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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An Uncommon Diplomacy: Walter Crocker’s ‘Nehru: A Contemporary’s Estimate’
Ramachandra Guha
The relationship between Australia and India has usually been viewed through the lens of cricket. Don Bradman and Keith Miller were heroes...
More ...Heroes (Just for One Day): 'The Countdown Spectacular'
Robert Forster
Molly is up in the bleachers with a microphone and a spotlight on him. He's up there to introduce the last act of the night, Sherbet....
More ...Time’s Arrow: An interview with Robert Hughes
Peter Craven
Hughes had become the art critic of Time magazine in 1970, and you could read those page-long pieces - which as severe a judge as Gerald...
More ...MEDIA
Who Let the Dogs Out?: Palm Island after the inquest into an death in custody
Chloe Hooper
On the morning of 19 November 2004, Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley, Palm Island's rangy 33-year-old officer in charge, had arrested Cameron...
More ...For the Record
Malcolm Knox
‘The Library of Babel', a 1941 story by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, is often read as a prefigurement of the internet. Every...
More ...Park Life
Sarah Kanowski
"You're handsome! You're beautiful!" he calls out as he walks the dogs. "Jesus loves you!" was the preferred greeting for a week or two,...
More ...Walk the Line
Mungo MacCallum
King over all the children of prideIs the Press - the Press - the Press!Rudyard KiplingMark Latham's latest work, A Conga Line of Suckholes...
More ...Comment
Robert Manne
Last month, the federal parliament passed the most important media laws in 20 years. The laws allow newspaper owners to move into free-to-...
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