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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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SOCIETY
Magical Thinking: Aravind Adiga on VS Naipaul’s 'The Masque of Africa'
Aravind Adiga
For over 40 years now, VS Naipaul has met, interviewed and annoyed people in dozens of countries to produce a body of travel writing that...
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SOCIETY
Tuckshop Duty
Benjamin Law
Someone should make a reality TV show called Tuckshop Ladies. The drama would be explosive. Elimination episodes would take place at...
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The King & I: Life in a Bangkok Prison
Harry Nicolaides
Compound One. For weeks I lay on my back, delirious with influenza. When I was able to stand, I shuffled around like a zombie, pushed here...
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WORLD
‘Banjo’ Paterson & Rudyard Kipling
In March 1900 in Bloemfontein, in the Orange Free State, Andrew ‘Banjo' Paterson attended a dinner hosted by the commander of the British...
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SOCIETY
Out of Africa
Gideon Haigh
In the 1960s, one of the catchcries of the anti-apartheid movement seeking the exile of South African athletes was "no normal sport in an...
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Malcolm Knox
Paradise is once again at hand for the persecuted tribe of Australian soccer, or ‘The One True Football’. This month, the Socceroos’...
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Malcolm Knox
On May 11, 1989, the worst team to leave Australia was playing the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord’s. One of the worst team’s worst bowlers...
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"Oh My God. He's Done it Again": Dobbing on Dr Raad
Nicholas Shakespeare
It was a late April morning in 2001 and my wife had taken our seven-month-old son to the Swansea surgery for a routine jab – the final set...
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