SOCIETY: Scholarship
CULTURE
That Blockhead Thing: Aztec Music’s Archaelogical Dig
Richard Guilliatt
The ’60s, so the saying goes, didn’t start in Australia until the ’70s. Richard Nixon was well into his first term in the White House by...
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POLITICS
No Liberation: Women in New Democracies. Hilary Charlesworth
Hilary Charlesworth
Since the end of the Cold War, much international attention has been devoted to building democracies to replace authoritarian regimes. East...
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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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SOCIETY
Shadow Play: Peter Robb’s 'Street Fight in Naples: A Book of Art and Insurrection'
Sebastian Smee
The first time I read Peter Robb’s Midnight in Sicily was also the first time I travelled around Sicily. The first and only. I remember at...
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The Death of the Good Father
Drusilla Modjeska
In Granta’s anthology called Fathers, published at the end of last year there’s a tough little story from New Zealand’s Kirsty Gunn. It’s...
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WORLD
The holocaust and genocide: Remembering the 20th century. Omer Bartov (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 This inaugural Wallenberg lecture is presented by Professor Omer Bartov, John P Birkelund Distinguished Professor of...
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WORLD
The holocaust and genocide: Remembering the 20th century. Omer Bartov
Omer Bartov
Part 1 | Part 2This inaugural Wallenberg lecture is presented by Professor Omer Bartov, John P Birkelund Distinguished Professor of...
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ECONOMICS
Helena Rubinstein & the Merino
More than a century after the event, it remains unclear exactly why Chaja Rubinstein, 23, fled her native Poland and took lodgings with her...
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He Would Have Disappeared Years Ago: John Carroll’s ‘The Existential Jesus’
Peter Jensen
I admire John Carroll for the seriousness with which he addresses major cultural issues. He has done so again in The Existential Jesus (...
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Justin Clemens
Coffee-table books about artists – especially when the artist is still alive – are an odd genre. Caught between biography and criticism,...
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The Interpreter - If alive, will play: Charles MacKarras and the quest for authenticity
Stephen Fay
Sir Neville Cardus, the legendary cricket writer and music critic, chose to spend the World War II years in Sydney rather than London....
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Run and Hide: Ken Trewick and the amazing race sting
John Harms
Ken Trewick is late. Which is very unlike Ken Trewick. He told me he’d pick me up at 9.30. And as I stand in the sunshine on the footpath...
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