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University of Sydney
Historical EncountersThe combination was untried but promising. To a well-pickled English favourite add a hearty Australian staple. Mix together in a selection of French cookware, season with mutual respect, sit with a glass of wine and let the flavours mingle. Elizabeth David was the closest thing to culinary royalty that Britain had ever produced. Her Mediterranean Cooking and French Country Cookbook... Monthly books
AC Grayling's 'Liberty in the Age of Terror'
Vladimir Nabokov's 'The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments'
Frederick Seidel's 'Ooga-Booga and Poems: 1959-2009'
Monthly musicMonthly film
Jacques Audiard's 'A Prophet' and John Hillcoat's 'The Road'
In A Prophet, a dazzling new film about innocence and power from Jacques Audiard (director of The Beat My Heart Skipped, 2005), 19-year-old Malik (Tahar Rahim) is about to embark on a six-year prison sentence for assaulting a cop. Polite and deferential, Malik is hard to read at first. The little we glean about his life is framed in terms of negatives: he has no contacts, no relatives; he didn’t grow up with his parents, but in juvenile centres. If he’s experiencing fear as he enters the chaos of the prison at Brécourt, he doesn’t show it. He’... Random reading
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