CULTURE
WORLD
Philosophic Emissions: Roger Scruton’s 'Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously about the Planet'
Peter Singer
Climate change is a threat to us all but it poses a particular difficulty for those who, like English philosopher Roger Scruton, are on the...
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CULTURE
The Art of Ideas: Wim Delvoye at MONA
Amanda Lohrey
The phenomenon that is Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is a Plato’s cave of multi-layered subterranean space where shadows of the...
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Don Watson
The best measure of the boon these phones have been is to recall the woe of life before them. Just 15 years ago on trams and trains people...
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CULTURE
Citizen Kael: Brian Kellow’s 'Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark'
Christos Tsiolkas
The day after I finished reading Brian Kellow’s Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark (Viking, 432pp; $39.00), I watched John Cassavetes’ Faces...
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CULTURE
Gumbo: Allen Toussaint and New Orleans
Paul Kelly
My job as a singer–songwriter often involves being interviewed. One of the questions I’m asked most frequently, up there with “What comes...
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CULTURE
The Bride Wore Black: Akira Isogawa
Peter Robb
Think ‘dress designer’ and what comes to mind? Not a whole lot of fun. Think of the last picture you saw of Karl Lagerfeld or John Galliano...
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WORLD
The Politics of News: David McKnight’s 'Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Power'
David Marr
Australian journalists have a sad history of going off to Washington to be ruined. They leave home the hope of the side but after a visit...
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CULTURE
Treasure in the Attic: The golden age of singer–songwriters
Robert Forster
As far as romantic professions go, it’s up there with lighthouse-keeping, lion-taming or jobbing as a private detective in Los Angeles in...
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CULTURE
The Life Not Lived: Reflections on Scholarship
Peter Robb
Donaldson’s eyes narrowed when I mentioned Oxford’s own great edition of Jonson. Eleven thick octavo volumes printed magnificently and...
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CULTURE
The Sitting Act: Portrait Painting
Charlotte Wood
In my early twenties I earned money sitting for life drawing classes at the small and beloved art school in my university town. I was by no...
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CULTURE
No One Comes To See Me Now: Manoly Lascaris and Patrick White’s ghost
Debra Adelaide
Three days a week, in the winter of 1993, I would drive the children to day care and continue to 20 Martin Road, Centennial Park. The house...
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CULTURE
'Outland' by Kevin Carlin
Benjamin Law
On paper, the premise of the new ABC1 sitcom Outland seems too self-consciously quirky for its own good. Homosexuals and sci-fi nerds?...
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WORLD
No Script, No Storyboard: William Kentridge
Sebastian Smee
“What times are these,” wrote Bertolt Brecht in his poem, ‘To Those Born After’, “when a talk about trees is almost a crime because it...
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CULTURE
Fred Schepisi & Vladimir Putin
As Fred Schepisi was whisked along the Rublyovka highway, past luxury car showrooms and Gucci boutiques, he reflected on how much Moscow...
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WORLD
'The Chemistry of Tears' By Peter Carey
Jennifer Byrne
In the peaty depths of Germany’s Black Forest, nineteenth-century English gentleman Henry Brandling commissions a giant clockwork automaton...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
The Stars My Destination
Luke Davies
Yet viewed on even larger scales, the sense of our tenure here can become positively claustrophobic. There’s really nowhere to go when you...
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Malcolm Knox
The group's dynamic is manifest in the photo. All but two are smiling. Five have criminal charges or convictions. Dragan Losic, slot...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Work and Play: Melbourne Zoo at 150
Christine Kenneally
The exoskeleton of the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect is such a deep, glazed black that it looks like it crawled out of a Flemish oil...
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CULTURE
David Marr on The Henson Case
David Marr
Journalist and writer David Marr speaks passionately and intelligently about the recent sagas involving photographer Bill Henson, which are...
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Lies that Tell the Truth: The paradox of art and creative writing
Simon Leys
This essay was originally an address to the annual conference of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, where its title, at the request of...
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23 February 2012
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