Peter Craven
Books, Noted
'The Legacy' by Kirsten Tranter
Peter Craven
Kirsten Tranter, the daughter of famous poet John and formidable literary agent Lyn, has a literary background with bells on. Her first...
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Tudor Style: Hilary Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall’
Peter Craven
It must be an abyss to contemplate the historical novel set in Tudor times. It’s not so much that the job has been done with such...
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Peter Craven's Best Books for Summer 2008-09
Peter Craven
Alice Schroeder, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (Bloomsbury, 976pp; $49.95). Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father,...
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A Stockingful: Peter Craven on the Best Books for Summer
Peter Craven
I suppose 2008 will be remembered as the year when the bottom fell out of the markets and America elected Barack Obama. If the former is...
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Sing Out Loud, Sing Out Strong: Opera in Australia
Peter Craven
It's an odd business, a night at the opera. You know, if you like the diversion, that you are basking in the glow of an artistic...
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Peter Craven's Best Books for Summer 2007-08
Peter Craven
Julian Burnside, Watching Brief: Reflections on Human Rights, Law and Justice (Scribe, 320pp; $32.95). ISBN(13): 9781921215490.Julia Fox,...
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Sixty of the Best: The best books for summer
Peter Craven
Christmas is one of those times when the world gives books, almost as if a nostalgia for filling the mind with images suggested by words...
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As You Like It: An interview with Geoffrey Rush
Peter Craven
Geoffrey Rush's last appearance on an Australian stage was in 2002, with Life x 3, in which he and his wife, Jane Menelaus, transfigured...
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Peter Craven
It's always an odd business to work out the vagaries of what anyone might like to read over Christmas and the New Year. Even the gender...
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...
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