Festivals: Melbourne Writers Festival
CULTURE
The Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom. Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan is one of Australia's most loved novelists - and most powerful orators. In the annual Alan Missen oration and the...
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MEDIA
Essaying Opinions. Marieke Hardy, Richard Flanagan & Robert Manne
At this Melbourne Writers Festival event, three renowned essay writers debate the health of the essay form in Australia. Do Richard...
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CULTURE
Plotting the perfect crime. Michael Robotham and Tess Gerritsen
Are great crime writers non-practising criminals?Two masters, international bestseller Tess Gerritsen (Rizzoli and Isles novels) and Ned...
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ENVIRONMENT
Ann Patchett at the Melbourne Writers Festival
Ann Patchett's Bel Canto won both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize, and Run was a New York Times bestseller. At the Melbourne...
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MEDIA
Birds of a Feather. Jonathan Franzen and Sean Dooley
World-renowned author Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections, Freedom) is a keen bird-watcher and conservationist, as is Sean Dooley (The Big...
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SOCIETY
1835: The Founding of Melbourne. James Boyce in Conversation
In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney,...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Hamlet's BlackBerry: William Powers on Life in the Digital Age
Hamlet’s BlackBerry, the New York Times bestseller by William Powers, is about the impact of new technologies on our life. It offers a new...
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WORLD
Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Struggle for Democracy. Malalai Joya
Malalai Joya shot to prominence in 2005 as a female parliamentarian in the National Assembly of Afghanistan. Since then, she's defied death...
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WORLD
Eliot Weinberger in conversation with Ramona Koval
Political commentator, translator and poetry editor Eliot Weinberger is joined by Ramona Koval to discuss the extraordinary breadth of his...
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MEDIA
Power Without Responsibility: The Australian – Manne & Beecher
Renowned essayist and public intellectual Robert Manne discusses his new Quarterly Essay 43 on the Australian newspaper...
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CULTURE
All That I Am. Anna Funder In Conversation
Anna Funder
Anna Funder is the author of the bestselling Stasiland, an examination of life in communist East Germany and the winner of the 2004 Samuel...
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CULTURE
Kate Grenville In Conversation With Ramona Koval
Kate Grenville
In Sarah Thornhill, Kate Grenville returns to the family at the centre of her best-known work, the internationally bestselling novel The...
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SOCIETY
Why We Still Need Feminism. Sophie Cunningham
Sophie Cunningham
Writer and feminist Sophie Cunningham has watched with growing frustration as women are increasingly marginalised: in the arts, in the...
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MEDIA
Jostein Gaarder in conversation with Ramona Koval (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 Speaking to Ramona Koval (ABC RN's Book Show) and a Melbourne Writers Festival audience, bestselling writer and...
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MEDIA
Jostein Gaarder in conversation with Ramona Koval
Part 1 | Part 2 Speaking to Ramona Koval (ABC RN's Book Show) and a Melbourne Writers Festival audience, bestselling writer and...
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WORLD
The Icarus Syndrome: A history of American hubris. Peter Beinart (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 At this Melbourne Writers Festival session, writer and journalist Peter Beinart tells Lawrie Zion about the ideas that...
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WORLD
The Icarus Syndrome: A history of American hubris. Peter Beinart
Part 1 | Part 2 At this Melbourne Writers Festival session, writer and journalist Peter Beinart tells Lawrie Zion about the ideas that...
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CULTURE
Inheritance: Nicholas Shakespeare in conversation (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 Award-winning fiction and non-fiction author Nicholas Shakespeare has been described by The Times as one of the UK’s 'best...
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CULTURE
Inheritance: Nicholas Shakespeare in conversation
Nicholas Shakespeare
Part 1 | Part 2 Award-winning fiction and non-fiction author Nicholas Shakespeare has been described by The Times as one of the UK’s 'best...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Health at whose cost? (p3)
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3Good health is our most treasured gift. Yet in developing countries people suffer every day from debilitating but...
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