Festivals: Sydney Writers’ Festival
SOCIETY
The Next Chapter
Malcolm Knox
The scene is being played out across Australia, parents unable to get access to their new iPads, Kindles or Kobos because the digital...
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CULTURE
On the Future of the Book. James Gleick
For some kinds of books the writing is on the wall, but the concept of the book itself will survive, adapting to new technologies in the...
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CULTURE
The Tiger's Wife. Téa Obreht in conversation
Téa Obreht’s first novel The Tiger’s Wife has won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction, an award previously won by such luminaries as Zadie...
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CULTURE
Howard Jacobson on Comedy and The Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson, recipient of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question, has revived the comic mode in fiction. In this Sydney...
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MEDIA
Singapore Sling. Peter Lloyd and Shamini Flint
After being caught with drugs in Singapore, ABC journalist Peter Lloyd found himself in custody and facing a hefty prison term and possible...
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SOCIETY
Marcia Langton and Peter Robb in Conversation
Following a Monthly profile on Indigenous academic Marcia Langton by author Peter Robb ('Midnight in Sicily', 'M', 'Street Fight in Naples...
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ENVIRONMENT
An evening with John Ralston Saul
Part 1 | Part 2Speaking at the Sydney Writers' Festival, renowned author and intellectual John Ralston Saul tells a packed Sydney Town Hall...
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Swinger: Christopher Hitchens’ 'Hitch-22'
Dennis Altman
At one point in Hitch-22: A Memoir (Atlantic Books, 352pp; $35.00) Christopher Hitchens writes: “As 1968 began to ebb into 1969 … people...
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WORLD
The next 100 Years: A forecast for the 21st century. George Friedman
George Friedman
Part 1 | Part 2In this Sydney Writers' Festival session, internationally renowned security and intelligence expert George Friedman talks to...
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CULTURE
Christos Tsiolkas on his influences and inspirations. Sydney Writers' Festival
Christos Tsiolkas
In this segment of the 'Writers as Readers' session at the Sydney Writers' Festival, Christos Tsiolkas talks about inspirations and...
More ...Enough Already!: Archbishop Peter Jensen, surprise scouge of John Howard and Malcolm Turnbull, has a vision of a country and a Liberal Party more
Andrew West
On the morning of June 29, two days before John Howard’s government sealed its control of the Australian parliament by assuming a majority...
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