November 3, 2011
When the centre cannot hold
Culture
Joan Didion’s 'Blue Nights'
Inga Clendinnen
By this author
March 31, 2011
Case histories
Culture
Hans Keilson’s ‘The Death of the Adversary’ and ‘Comedy in a Minor Key’
March 25, 2010
End of history
arts
Yann Martel’s ‘Beatrice and Virgil’
September 4, 2009
A Federer game
Society
JM Coetzee’s ‘Summertime’
April 1, 2009
The good soldier
Society
WEH Stanner & ‘An Appreciation of Difference’
September 2, 2008
Only look, only see
arts
David Malouf’s ‘On Experience’
April 4, 2007
Lost in the woods
arts
Norman Mailer’s ‘The Castle in the Forest’
August 3, 2005
‘Beyond Black’ by Hilary Mantel
arts
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 …
June 1, 2005
Brown skin black hearts. Two trail-spotting postcards from two different Australias
arts
‘Kayang & Me’ by Kim Scott and Hazel Brown; ‘Balanda’ by Mary Ellen Jordan