Robyn Davidson
Arts & Letters
Bird-brained: Tim Birkhead’s 'Bird Sense: What It’s Like to Be a Bird'
Robyn Davidson
Had nature not evolved birds, would we dream of flight? Would we be sufficiently inspired by the dragonfly, the butterfly, the bee? No...
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The Nation Reviewed
Garage Alchemists: A Dining Experience at Hobart’s Garagistes
Robyn Davidson
Garagistes wine bar is indeed housed in a garage. And the people who work there are techies of a sort – gastronomic alchemists. I had my...
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Arts & Letters
Couch Habit: 'In Treatment: Season Three'
Robyn Davidson
If, like Frederick Crews of the ‘Freud wars’, you think Freud was a crank, and his legacy a “spurious, ineffective pseudoscience”; or if,...
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Travel Special
Tide of Improvement: Robyn Davidson on Health Retreats
Robyn Davidson
Sometimes fortune gifts you things you did not know you needed. Tyringham Clinic was one of those. Out in the luminous green, motorway-...
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The Monthly Essays
Into the Beehive: The Destruction of Burrup Rock Art
Robyn Davidson
We all know what justifications, arguments and perspectives are likely to be heard from the competing interests (competing visions of value...
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Body of Work: Antony Gormley’s 'Firmament IV'
Robyn Davidson
Like all stereotypes, “stupid as a painter” – intended to cover visual artists of every persuasion – reveals itself as a truth via its...
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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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The Nation Reviewed
The Wanderer
Robyn Davidson
"‘So what of this notion of exile?'‘No,' he says, ‘exile is too pretty a word. Can you reframe that?'‘Homelessness?'‘No, that's wrong -...
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Living: In the Age of Noise
Robyn Davidson
Opinions are antagonistic to wisdom, even when they're right, which they seldom are. People cling to their opinions until history proves...
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The Nation Reviewed
Organic Matter
Robyn Davidson
One of the great things about getting older is that all the anxieties you once had about death and decline (and some of us have had them...
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