June 1, 2017
Why she broke
Society
The woman, her children and the lake: Akon Guode’s tragic story
Helen Garner
By this author
July 1, 2015
The darkness in every one of us
Culture
The author of ‘This House of Grief’ and ‘Joe Cinque’s Consolation’ on writing about darkness
June 7, 2016
Going the bloody hard way
blog
Notes on Micheline Lee’s ‘The Healing Party’
May 1, 2015
The insults of age
Society
A one-woman assault on condescension
October 1, 2014
Mother courage
essay
At home with Rosie Batty
April 1, 2014
A funny thing happened on the way to Adelaide
article
A car accident brings an unlikely collection of people together
November 1, 2012
Death in Brunswick
Social media
The rooftop bar was buzzing, late on a warm Friday afternoon. My friend and I found a spot under an umbrella and ordered up. Each of us was secretly longing to talk about the fact that the cops had charged a man with the rape and murder of Jill Meagher, …
October 4, 2012
Lost cause
Law
Defending the indefensible
September 6, 2012
‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’ by Philip Kaufman (director)
essay
Writers are notoriously impossible to make good movies about, and director Philip Kaufman in his disastrous new film has tackled a challenging pair: Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen), the Nobel Laureate and world-class self-mythologiser, and Martha Gellhorn …
July 5, 2012
Meek No More
Helen Garner
The teenager in pyjamas on the dawn flight from Newcastle, entranced by her reflection in a magnifying mirror, spent the trip applying a full face of make-up. From her headset issued the standard tss tss tss, but at such savage volume that the …
May 25, 2012
’Once Upon a Time in Anatolia’ by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Film
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s new movie is a long, brilliantly sophisticated and moving work, knitted together by subtle narrative threads that emerge and re-emerge through the texture of its manifest plot, a murder investigation. Three carloads of men – cops, …
May 3, 2012
Red Dog
Society
A pet’s mutiny
April 4, 2012
A Port for the Soul
Film
Aki Kaurismäki’s 'Le Havre'