October 2008
CULTURE
The Return of the Wichita Lineman: Glen Campbell’s 'Meet Glen Campbell'
Robert Forster
Put yourself in Glen Campbell's shoes. You're 72. You've sold 45 million records. You've been married four times, most...
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WORLD
Daniel Mannix & BA Santamaria
In 1935 to be Catholic was to be Irish, and the hierarchy ruled its flock with a firm doctrinal hand and an unchallenged tribal authority...
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'Netherland' by Joseph O’Neill
Patrick Allington
With this sweeping tale of contemporary New York, Joseph O'Neill - Irish-born, raised in the Netherlands and now living in the US - has...
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Amanda Lohrey
Jacinta Halloran is a Melbourne medical practitioner, as is the heroine of her first novel, Dissection. Anna McBride is 43, a competent GP...
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The Remembering: Ari Folman’s 'Waltz with Bashir'
Luke Davies
The Israeli director Ari Folman's audacious Waltz with Bashir is called an animated documentary feature by its producers. It is much...
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Pilgrimage: Robert Dessaix’s 'Arabesques'
Alexandra Coghlan
Scan the non-fiction shelves of any bookshop and you will find yourself invited to follow in the footsteps of Flaubert, Tolstoy, Alexander...
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Contempt: Richard Brody’s 'Everything Is Cinema'
Adrian Martin
In 2003, the veteran independent director Nigel Buesst made a documentary, Carlton + Godard = Cinema, about a small band of film-makers...
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Six Degrees of Apocalypse: Recent Books about Climate Change
Clive Hamilton
In the early 1950s a woman in Minneapolis began to receive communications from an extraterrestrial being named Sananda. Marian Keech, as...
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Coup-Coup Land: Life Under Fiji’s Interim Government
Craig Sherborne
Even the funeral parlours here are caged, as if there's profitable trade in pawning corpses. In shop windows, houses are advertised for...
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Silent Country: Travels Through a Recovering Landscape
Tim Winton
I remember driving through wheat country on winter's nights as a boy to see mile upon mile of burning windrows, whose parallel lines were...
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La Travesty: Opera Australia’s Troubles
Gideon Haigh
When Martin retired in January, after a 45-year career, it was with all passion spent. The voice of Wagner's Hans Sachs and Wotan was as...
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POLITICS
Jung at Heart
Mungo MacCallum
A seldom-noted characteristic of the Australian political class is that almost all its members - participants, commentators and spectators...
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SOCIETY
24/7
Alice Pung
Bianca promised to drive me to the 24-hour Kmart in East Burwood, Melbourne, because I wanted to see what people need to buy at three in...
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SOCIETY
Macbeth on Monday
Gail Bell
For nearly 15 years, on the Monday nights I'm in town I've driven to a house at a nearby beach where a group of people (all women, although...
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POLITICS
Comment
Judith Brett
Last October we were all fixed on the election due by the end of the year. John Howard didn't set the date till mid month, and then he went...
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