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March 24, 2022My small part in the making of ‘The Power of the Dog’
How a conversation about Patrick White led to the making of Jane Campion’s Oscar-nominated film
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December 1, 2011The Orange-bellied parrot
Alison had never liked her grandmother, who lived alone in a big overheated apartment in Zurich, and so when Helen went into hospital after a mild stroke and, rather than consent to enter a nursing home, decided on a “self-determined death” with the …
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May 5, 2011The quiet peninsula
Freycinet, Tasmania
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February 6, 2008Before little England
James Boyce’s ‘Van Diemen’s Land’
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August 3, 2005Sarah has an interview
In early July my beautiful 17-year-old niece arrived from Winnipeg, Canada, on her first visit to London. I’d assured Sarah’s parents I would look after her in the city that Londoners fondly call “the big smoke”. In Winnipeg, as in the Kundera …
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July 6, 2005The intervention
W. made his slow way up the steps into Am Sandwerder and accustomed his eyes to the light, uncertain whether the streaks in the sky signified dawn or dusk. Never could he recall feeling so depleted. He had lost count of the hours he’d spent in the basement …
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June 1, 2005“Oh my god. He’s done it again”
Dobbing on Dr Raad