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Malcolm Knox
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Malcolm Knox | Books | Dec 2009 - Jan 2010 | Society & Culture
High noon. A red dust storm has swallowed Sydney, and Brittany Boffo and Dean Frenkel are sitting in a green room readying themselves to make human history. Both are already world-record holders. Brisbane’s Brittany, 11, can do more body skips – contortions involving stepping over her bound wrists...
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Malcolm Knox | The Monthly Essays | Business | Media | November 2009
The Absence of TrustMurdoch’s choice of speech title was a simple pun. The object of his attack was to be the BBC Trust, the governing body that, he argued, has let the public broadcaster run out of control. James Murdoch likes wordplay and literary references. At his Connecticut wedding in 2000,...
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Malcolm Knox | The Monthly Essays | Business | October 2009 | Society & Culture
Invited to speak at The Australian Club in Sydney a couple of years ago, I felt reticent about telling, say, my wife where I was going. After all, being caught inside this type of gentlemen’s club may carry more shame than being spotted in the ones with poles and mirrors. Even more shameful for me...
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Malcolm Knox | The Monthly Essays | September 2009 | Society & Culture
The Surry Hills premises were Spartan and recently opened. Scientology’s central Sydney church, in Castlereagh St, is closed for the addition of two floors and a glass-fronted tower topped with the church’s radiant cross. The development application was approved by the City of Sydney Council...
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Part 1 | Part 2In this Sydney PEN - 3 Voices series lecture, Walkley award-winning journalist and novelist Malcolm Knox explores (sometimes provocatively) the idea of honour in contemporary life. Introduction by Lucinda Holdforth. Sydney, April 2009... » play video
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The outcome, after some interrogation and cross-referencing, was a relationship with the writing of David Foster Wallace that has been life-changing, albeit less so than for Steve Beeson, whose life was literally changed by Wallace's 1996 novel, Infinite Jest. Some years ago, Beeson told a...
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"I can never remember my best waves," said Mick Fanning, of Coolangatta, when he became the world surfing champion last year. "You ride it without even really knowing what you're doing. And you get to the end and you're thinking, What did I just do?"The most articulate...
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Malcolm Knox | The Nation Reviewed | April 2007 | Media | Society & Culture
When Gough Whitlam told the young Kevin Rudd to go out and get a university degree, Rudd chose to study Chinese language and history at the ANU. What if a present-day mentor showed equal prescience and advised an ambitious protégé to go out and learn the language which is in full flower across the...
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Malcolm Knox | The Monthly Essays | Business | February 2007
Where exactly am I? It's not easy to answer. This is a place called Toyota Megaweb, situated on Odaiba, an island reclaimed from Tokyo Bay in the heady bubble days of 1988. Odaiba means "cannon emplacements", as this was the fort from which Japan intended to defend itself against...
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‘The Library of Babel', a 1941 story by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, is often read as a prefigurement of the internet. Every book in the library has 410 pages, made up of the letters of the standard alphabet. The catch is that these letters are arranged in every possible permutation...
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The group's dynamic is manifest in the photo. All but two are smiling. Five have criminal charges or convictions. Dragan Losic, slot mouth buried in black goatee, hands crossed over his groin, as beefily threatening as an extra in a gladiator movie, stands hogging the centre. A martial-arts...
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Paradise is once again at hand for the persecuted tribe of Australian soccer, or ‘The One True Football’. This month, the Socceroos’ participation in the World Cup – for the first time in 32 years, and for only the second time ever – is set to awaken the ‘sleeping giant’. Yet again, the code’s...
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My dear Callum and Lilian,You entered our hearts identically, 15 months apart, as affirmative lines on a pregnancy test in your Uncle David’s bathroom in London. Your mother sat amid black-and-white chequerboard tiles, crying. We only need to practise one method of birth control: never return to...
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“The event that dislocated our period from the last was September 11.” “Oh-one. Twin Towers. Splatter patterns. It’s raining men, hallelujah ...” “Hush. The event to which you refer merely amplified the existing order, even accelerated its actions. No. I am referring to September 11, 2006. The so-...
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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, Mervyn Hughes, was fielding a few steps from where I sat on the boundary. England welcomed Hughes, an antipodean caricature well known for his handlebar...
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Back when I was careless about what I wished for, someone asked a fanciful question, redolent of hope and innocence, about my up-coming first novel. “If you could choose, would you take critical approval or good sales?”If I could choose! That “if” was the first sign of callowness, or hubris,...
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