November 2008
CULTURE
Thea Proctor & Margaret Preston
Until the cakes started to fly, the two artists were something of a mutual admiration society.Thea Proctor was elegant, tasteful and...
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CULTURE
'The Slap' by Christos Tsiolkas
Mary Ellen Jordan
The blurb on my copy of Christos Tsiolkas's new novel tells me that it's about the modern family. But most of the book's main characters...
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What Might Have Been: Kate Grenville's ‘The Lieutenant’
Christina Thompson
In many respects, Kate Grenville's latest novel, The Lieutenant (Text Publishing, 320pp; $45), feels like a sequel to her 2005 book, The...
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High Wire Acts: James Marsh’s ‘Man on Wire’
Luke Davies
In file footage from 7 August 1974, a New York City police officer speaks at a press conference. "Officer Meyers and I observed the...
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Unsettled: David Marr’s ‘The Henson Case’
Sebastian Smee
David Marr's book on the Bill Henson controversy (Text Publishing, 149pp; $24.95) begins with a reasonable man reasonably wondering if...
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The Conflict Business: Australian Political Memoirs
Peter Hartcher
One of the standout episodes illustrating the tomfoolery of federal parliamentarians is the time that Peter Costello flung a sheaf of paper...
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Flappers & Snappers: ‘Vanity Fair Portraits’
Clare Press
The origins of the word ‘glamour' lie in the swirling mists of Scottish thaumaturgy; to be glamorous in Robbie Burns' time was to...
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Everything & More: The Work of David Foster Wallace
Malcolm Knox
The outcome, after some interrogation and cross-referencing, was a relationship with the writing of David Foster Wallace that has been life...
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A New Desert: Trekking in the Simpson
Robyn Davidson
For Indigenous people, who knew it as well as their own bodies (in a sense, their country was both body and mind), it was a large garden...
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What is Rudd’s Agenda?
Robert Manne
In 2007, I was involuntarily drawn into an argument about the likely performance of the Rudd government. Before the election, many people...
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SOCIETY
Hair Care
Robert Forster
At 17 I could have become a hairdresser.In Brisbane in the early to mid '70s, the only places offering any kind of interesting shopping...
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POLITICS
Following Menzies
John Hirst
What should the Liberal Party do when Labor governments favour private enterprise, contracting out and selling off? Join in, of course. In...
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WORLD
Ursa Major
Gideon Haigh
This year marks the centenary of an early classic of American finance: Fifty Years on Wall Street, by Henry Clews, a self-made speculative...
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Comment
Don Watson
Sixty-eight-year-old Lloyd Griffin sits on the verandah of his new house in New Orleans' once notorious Ninth Ward. The house is...
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