October 2005
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October 2005
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Kerryn Goldsworthy
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Television | Media | Noted | October 2005
Among people who get their current affairs from the ABC or SBS, the consensus is that A Current Affair and Today Tonight...
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Zora Simic
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Books | Noted | October 2005
Howard and Kiki Besley are the fraught couple at the centre of Zadie Smith’s new novel. Claire Malcolm, poet and interloper in their 30-year marriage, tries to make sense of them: “He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a...
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Justin Clemens
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Art | October 2005
Founded by Peter the Great in 1703 as a “window to the West”, St Petersburg quickly became, according to Alexander Pushkin, “the jewel of the North”. Fyodor Dostoyevsky would later call it “that most abstract and intentional of cities”. By the early 20th...
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Ramachandra Guha
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Books | October 2005
One of the first books I owned was Keith Miller’s Cricket Crossfire. My father found it in a shop in Delhi and brought it home to the small sub-Himalayan town where we lived. I read the...
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Books | October 2005
I love going down the freeway in Shanghai and looking up at the apartment buildings … There’s an airconditioner in every residential window, which is fantastic.
—Chip Goodyear, August 2005
We create CO2 every time we drive a car, cook a meal or...
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Robert Forster
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Music | October 2005
In a far corner of my mind there has always been a place for Nana Mouskouri. She resides there with a few others: Marcel Marceau, Charles Aznavour, Juliette Greco. Postwar bohemians. Cafe performers who got onto TV or into the concert halls early, who had a...
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Helen Garner
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Film | October 2005
One morning I walked into the kitchen and found my son-in-law standing frozen in front of the TV. On the screen a bloke in a blue singlet was manhandling an electric guitar. I had never before witnessed such a noxious exhalation of inauthenticity. “Who’s...
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Catherine Ford
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Story | October 2005
Martha Solburn, an American woman, plump and unaccustomed to vacations, eased herself out of a taxi into the late-August morning. Her companion, Stewart Winter, adjusted the seat of his jeans and followed, wheeling a new Samsonite suitcase.
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Simon Kuper
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The Monthly Essays | October 2005
On this mid-August morning he is supervising a bunch of big men flying into each other. It’s the start of a journey that is supposed to take the team a few miles across the border, from the Back Corner to Germany, for the 2006 World Cup. The only spectators...
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