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November 1, 2023There are no words
Finding solace and surprise around a family Scrabble board with a grandmother in decline
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Society
November 1, 2023There are no words
Finding solace and surprise around a family Scrabble board with a grandmother in decline
Culture
June 1, 2022The slow fade of music education
An elegy for music, learning and impoverished culture
Culture
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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February 1, 2022Roosting
The trials and transcendence of packing and unpacking in order to move house
Culture
December 1, 2020The glass curtain
Classical music’s problem with women
Culture
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
Culture
July 1, 2020Fermata: Musical performance in lockdown
What becomes of the communion of classical musicians, composers and audiences during social isolation?
Society
May 1, 2020He is risen!
Keeping mum about the Easter Bunny
Society
February 1, 2018Screen-free day
C’mon, kids. It’ll be fun …
Culture
December 1, 2017Unfinished business: A short story
Can a young wartime couple pick up where they left off?
Culture
August 1, 2016Beyond imagination
Nobel Prize–winning journalist Svetlana Alexievich brings together an extraordinarily diverse group of Russian voices
Culture
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’
Culture
March 1, 2016The art of manipulation
True crime and entertainment in Netflix’s ‘Making a Murderer’
Culture
October 1, 2015The lost art of listening
Has classical music become irrelevant?