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    37 ENTRIES Peter Conrad’s most recent book is How the World Was Won. His Myths of the Day, based on a BBC radio series, will be published in 2016.



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    An auteur planet

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    Queen of the night

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    September 1, 2011

    Shakespeare in Australia

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    Culture

    August 1, 2011

    Under the skin

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    arts

    June 30, 2011

    Empire of the mind

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    May 5, 2011

    Can we be heroes?

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    President Obama and the First Lady trade smiles with Her Majesty, April 2009. © Anwar Hussein / Getty Images

    Society

    February 3, 2011

    Falling stars

    The plight of the Windsors

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    November 4, 2010

    Lest we forget

    Hugh Lunn’s ‘Words Fail Me: A Journey through Australia’s Lost Language’

    Carrol Jerrems, 'Mirror with a Memory: Motel Room', 1977. Type C colour photograph, 23 x 18 centimetres. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. © Ken Jerrems and the Estate of Lance Jerrems

    arts

    October 1, 2010

    The faith of images

    ‘Up Close’

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    September 3, 2010

    Sister act

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    April 29, 2010

    The alchemist

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    Culture

    March 25, 2010

    The possessed

    Meeting Barrie Kosky

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