Peter Robb
The Monthly Essays
The Insult: An incurious encounter takes flight
Peter Robb
It was getting dark and the plane for Darwin was almost full. Well back in Economy, the two seats between me and the window were empty. The...
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The Monthly Essays
Autumn of the Patriarch: Four Days with José Ramos-Horta
Peter Robb
I got to Dili at seven in the morning and the president of the República Democrática de Timor-Leste arrived from New York via Singapore a...
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Arts & Letters
The Bride Wore Black: Akira Isogawa
Peter Robb
Think ‘dress designer’ and what comes to mind? Not a whole lot of fun. Think of the last picture you saw of Karl Lagerfeld or John Galliano...
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The Monthly Essays
The Life Not Lived: Reflections on Scholarship
Peter Robb
Donaldson’s eyes narrowed when I mentioned Oxford’s own great edition of Jonson. Eleven thick octavo volumes printed magnificently and...
More ...A Journey through North-western NSW with Filmmaker Ivan Sen
Peter Robb
Ivan Sen was heading for the place that gives its name to his new film Toomelah, the place where he made the film. We drove through...
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Arts & Letters, Architecture
Fathers & Sons: Meeting Glenn Murcutt
Peter Robb
So Architects do square and hew, Green Trees that in the Forest grew. It was a long day on the road. We covered 675 kilometres of highway,...
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Television, Arts & Letters
The Kid Grows Up: Meeting Alex Dimitriades
Peter Robb
Nearing 40, a man’s body begins to die. The body knows this. So does the mind, though it can take a long time before the mind knows what it...
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Arts & Letters
Out of the Box: Meeting Lally Katz
Peter Robb
I’m very ambitious!” Lally Katz said, or rather shouted, confidentially, lowering her eyes toward her glass of Aglianico. She looked like a...
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The Monthly Essays
Stardust Memories: In Search of Real Italian Food
Peter Robb
Tony Bilson has done incomparable good for eating in Sydney over a long time. The gold-coated egg yolk was a Melbourne boy’s astute pitch...
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Marcia Langton and Peter Robb in Conversation
Following a Monthly profile on Indigenous academic Marcia Langton by author Peter Robb ('Midnight in Sicily', 'M', 'Street Fight in Naples...
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