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November 3, 2011When the centre cannot hold
Joan Didion’s 'Blue Nights'
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November 3, 2011When the centre cannot hold
Joan Didion’s 'Blue Nights'
Culture
March 31, 2011Case histories
Hans Keilson’s ‘The Death of the Adversary’ and ‘Comedy in a Minor Key’
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September 3, 2010The politics of prose
David Grossman’s ‘To the End of the Land’
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March 25, 2010End of history
Yann Martel’s ‘Beatrice and Virgil’
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September 4, 2009A Federer game
JM Coetzee’s ‘Summertime’
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April 1, 2009The good soldier
WEH Stanner & ‘An Appreciation of Difference’
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September 2, 2008Only look, only see
David Malouf’s ‘On Experience’
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April 4, 2007Lost in the woods
Norman Mailer’s ‘The Castle in the Forest’
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August 3, 2005‘Beyond Black’ by Hilary Mantel
Alison is a professional psychic working a cluster of grim towns on the fringe of London. She is a woman of “unfeasible size” but onstage, in her draperies, sporting her lucky opals, she transforms into a woman of confidence, presence and charm. While …
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June 1, 2005Brown skin black hearts. Two trail-spotting postcards from two different Australias
‘Kayang & Me’ by Kim Scott and Hazel Brown; ‘Balanda’ by Mary Ellen Jordan