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16 ENTRIES Drusilla Modjeska is an editor and novelist whose book Stravinsky's Lunch won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. She has edited Meanjin and The Best Australian Essays.

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Daniel Crooks, 'Static No.12 (seek stillness in movement)', 2009–10, exhibited as part of 'Marking Time' at the MCA. Courtesy of the artist

Architecture

April 4, 2012

Sydney Gets a Laneway

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

Louise Bourgeois, 'Harmless Woman', 1969. Bronze, gold patina. Image courtesy of Cheim and Read, Galerie Karsten Greve and Galerie Hauser and Wirth © Estate of Louise Bourgeois. Photograph by Christopher Burke.

Culture

October 6, 2011

Bodying forth

Alice Neel and Louise Bourgeois

Culture

June 2, 2011

Ever unforgiven

Craig Sherborne’s ‘The Amateur Science of Love’

The view from Tufi Dive Resort, overlooking a fjord and out to Mt Trafalgar. © Don Silcock/Indo-Pacific Images

Society

May 5, 2011

In the fjords

Tufi, Papua New Guinea

View of Dover Heights from Watsons Bay, Sydney, 2009. © Adam JWC / Wikimedia Commons

Society

November 4, 2010

Under the bridge

Delia Falconer’s ‘Sydney’

Society

September 4, 2009

The death of the good father

Towards the end of Dreams from my Father, Barack Obama’s Kenyan half-sister, Auma, tells him that she sometimes has “this dream that I will build a beautiful house on our grandfather’s land. A big house where we can all stay and bring our …

Culture

March 1, 2009

Arise!

Philip Roth’s ‘Indignation’

Culture

December 1, 2008

Between a muddle & a mystery

Brian Dibble’s ‘Doing Life’

Society

August 1, 2007

A husk of meaning

What happened to community?

arts

November 1, 2006

Letters in the sand

Lloyd Jones’s ‘Mister Pip’

nation_reviewed

October 4, 2006

Port Vila For Sale

The ads begin before you get there. Air Vanuatu's in-flight magazine offers all manner of access to "paradise": "boutique" resorts, "palm-fringed" bungalows, "dream" tours - even your own slice of "absolute beachfront from AUD$50,000". In the second …

essay

July 5, 2006

Our future thinkers

The search for the next generation of public intellectuals

arts

March 8, 2006

The multiple lives of a muse

Carolyn Burke’s ‘Lee Miller’

arts

December 7, 2005

Betrayals of faith

The writings of Alex Miller