March 2006
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March 2006
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Shane Maloney
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March 2006 | Encounters
Both were princes in their own lands.
One was a scion of the squattocracy, the only son of a wealthy grazier and the grandson of a conservative politician, educated at Melbourne Grammar and Oxford University and sent to parliament at...
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Kerryn Goldsworthy
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Television | Noted | March 2006
These days even the most unsophisticated punter knows that when a TV station advises that a regular program will be shown ‘at the special time of X’, what they really mean is that they have re-jigged the schedule in order to feature some one-off TV ‘event’ in prime time, and...
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Justin Clemens
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Books | Noted | March 2006
Coffee-table books about artists – especially when the artist is still alive – are an odd genre. Caught between biography and criticism, scholarship and accessibility, they too often try to resolve these tensions by recourse to adjective-laden hagiography....
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Simon Caterson
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Books | March 2006
“It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Winston Churchill’s assessment of Russia in 1939 applies equally to the Albania of 1981. The Successor is a dispatch from the heart...
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Robert Forster
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Music | March 2006
To release an album in January or early February is, sometimes, to make a statement. There are two blocks of the year when most records come out: March to June, and September to November. July and August are European and American summer holidays, so little...
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Drusilla Modjeska
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Books | March 2006
Vogue model turned photographer, bobbed muse of Man Ray and ‘unofficial’ surrealist, Lee Miller makes a challenge to her biographer that is not dissimilar to the challenge she made to...
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Helen Garner
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Film | March 2006
The trailer of Bennett Miller’s Capote might give one the idea that it’s just Philip Seymour Hoffman doing a ferocious impersonation of the writer – the piping voice, the name-dropping,...
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Chloe Hooper
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The Monthly Essays | March 2006
Travelling to Palm Island is like a sequence from a dream: the pale green sea seems so luminous and so fecund, and the plane flies so close to it, you see seals, and what might be dugongs and giant turtles. As the plane turns to land the island unfolds...
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Robert Manne
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The Monthly Essays | March 2006
The meaning of John Howard’s ten years as Prime Minister of Australia – how Australia has been changed, how the era will eventually be seen – can most easily be grasped if it is accepted that the period of his rule can be divided into two almost equal halves...
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