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May 1, 2022Ghost notes: Simon Tedeschi’s ‘Fugitive’
A virtuoso memoir of music and trauma, and his experiences as a child prodigy, from the acclaimed Australian pianist
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May 1, 2022Ghost notes: Simon Tedeschi’s ‘Fugitive’
A virtuoso memoir of music and trauma, and his experiences as a child prodigy, from the acclaimed Australian pianist
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December 1, 2020The glass curtain
Classical music’s problem with women
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August 1, 2020What are the odds?: Toby Ord’s ‘The Precipice’
The Australian philosopher’s rational exploration of existential risk is bracing but ultimately hopeful
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July 1, 2020Fermata: Musical performance in lockdown
What becomes of the communion of classical musicians, composers and audiences during social isolation?
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May 1, 2020He is risen!
Keeping mum about the Easter Bunny
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February 1, 2018Screen-free day
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December 1, 2017Unfinished business: A short story
Can a young wartime couple pick up where they left off?
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August 1, 2016Beyond imagination
Nobel Prize–winning journalist Svetlana Alexievich brings together an extraordinarily diverse group of Russian voices
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June 1, 2016Sweet dark purpose
Scaling the IVF mountain in Julia Leigh’s ‘Avalanche’
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April 1, 2016Felled by grace
Helen Garner’s work collected in ‘Everywhere I Look’
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March 1, 2016The art of manipulation
True crime and entertainment in Netflix’s ‘Making a Murderer’
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October 1, 2015The lost art of listening
Has classical music become irrelevant?
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May 1, 2015‘Dancing in the Dark’ by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Harvill Secker; $32.99
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April 1, 2015Seeing clearly
‘Transparent’