Society
September 1, 2015The rag trade
How charities transform the clothes we throw away
Delia Falconer
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September 1, 2011‘Sarah Thornhill’ by Kate Grenville
Each of the three books in Kate Grenville’s loose trilogy – The Secret River (2005), The Lieutenant (2008) and now Sarah Thornhill – is an act of atonement. Each recognises the damage done to Indigenous …
Society
March 31, 2011The bird man and Mrs Gluck
A Kings Cross identity
Culture
December 2, 2010‘Hand Me Down World’ by Lloyd Jones
“I was with her at the first hotel on the Arabian Sea. That was for two years. Then at the hotel in Tunisia for three years. At the first hotel we slept in the same room. I knew her name, but that is all. I did not know when her birthday was. I did …
arts
August 5, 2010Connective tissue
‘Tangle’ (Season Two) and ‘Spirited’
Society
June 30, 2010The public mind
Bret Easton Ellis’ ‘Imperial Bedrooms’
Society
July 3, 2009Brought to Booker
Man Booker International
arts
March 5, 2008Train I ride
Don Watson’s ‘American Journeys’
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September 6, 2006Roadkill
It is a cold morning on the Tasman Peninsula, south of Hobart, and I am holding a dead wombat's paw. It is a surprisingly dainty thing, as elongated as a baby's foot. The pads are plump, unscarred and scrupulously clean. The palm is gently cupped. Dr …
arts
November 2, 2005The great unspooler. Romeo meets Juliet in ‘Kashmir’
‘Shalimar the Clown’ by Salman Rushdie