CULTURE: Satire
CULTURE
Best Satire of 2011
Ten of the most amusing reads of 2011 from the Shortlist Daily. I'm sorry I bit you during my job interview "It was great to meet...
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SOCIETY
The Public Mind: Bret Easton Ellis’ 'Imperial Bedrooms'
Delia Falconer
“Yeah!! Thank God he’s finally dead. I’ve been waiting for this day for-fucking-ever. Party tonight!!!” Bret Easton Ellis posted this Tweet...
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Faraway Tales: Elif Batuman’s 'The Possessed'
Robert Dessaix
I was a small child when I first read Enid Blyton’s The Enchanted Wood. Or was it the sequel, The Magic Faraway Tree? It had a stylish Art...
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Coming Of Age: Robin Boyd’s ‘The Australian Ugliness’ Fifty Years On
Peter Conrad
In 1960, when Robin Boyd published his attack on the stylistic cowardice of our suburbs, it took courage to call Australia ugly. The...
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CULTURE
Bendable Learnings. Don Watson on the wisdom of modern management (p2)
Don Watson
Part 1 | Part 2 After revealing the decay of public language in Death Sentence and then compiling the hilarious Watson’s Dictionary of...
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CULTURE
Bendable Learnings. Don Watson on the wisdom of modern management
Don Watson
Part 1 | Part 2 After revealing the decay of public language in Death Sentence and then compiling the hilarious Watson’s Dictionary of...
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The Comeback Kid: Eddie Perfect’s 'Shane Warne: The Musical'
Gideon Haigh
Consider these three vignettes from the storied life of Shane Warne, involving something that happened, then something that didn't, then...
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Unbridled: Laurent Tirard’s ‘Molière’
Luke Davies
The French actor Romain Duris first came to attention in Tony Gatlif's Gadjo dilo (1997), in which he played the elfin Stéphane, who...
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Gas!: Upton Sinclair’s ‘Oil!’ & Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘There Will Be Blood’
Gideon Haigh
Upton Sinclair never had much faith in the movies. When the great American socialist's novel The Moneychangers (1908) was adapted for...
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Awaken the Gods: Barrie Kosky’s ‘The Lost Echo’
Edward Scheer
Barrie Kosky is going to be pissed off. No booing, no heckling, no rotten fruit, no veal cutlets (yes, an Italian audience once threw these...
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