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POLITICS
Barry Jones & Arthur Koestler
Among the handful of authors who shaped his young mind, Barry Jones told his television audience in September 1968, Arthur Koestler ranked...
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POLITICS
'Caleb’s Crossing' By Geraldine Brooks
Kirsten Tranter
Caleb’s Crossing extends Geraldine Brooks’s interest in the early history of the United States, first explored in her Pulitzer Prize–...
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WORLD
Parallel Lives: Mark Twain and his Autobiography: Volume 1
Peter Robb
A big book by Mark Twain became a bestseller in the US following its publication last November, a hundred years after its author’s death....
More ...From the Chrysalis
Don Watson
FIRST PUBLISHED IN JUNE 2010. It was a bad night for neo-cons, neo-liberals and neo-Hobbesians, the last being those wiseacres in and...
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SOCIETY
Digging: A moral equivalent to Anzac Day
Don Watson
In countries like our own it seems possible that, relative to lifestyle, life has less meaning than it used to. Life is for people...
More ...Letters in the Sand: Lloyd Jones’s 'Mister Pip'
Drusilla Modjeska
There's more than one way to read a book. On the front cover of Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip (Text Publishing, 220pp; $29.95), which is...
More ...Beloved Companheiros: What happened in East Timor
Mark Aarons
José Ramos Horta’s appointment as prime minister, on 8 July, has – for the time being, at least – brought a measure of stability to East...
More ...'Ludmila’s Broken English' by DBC Pierre
Celina Riberio
It’s a new world. Science has separated 33-year-old conjoined twins Blair and Bunny. Privatisation has plucked them from their...
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