Peter Robb

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16 ENTRIES Peter Robb is the author of Midnight in Sicily, which won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for non-fiction and was named a New York Times Notable Book. His other books include A Death in Brazil (the Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year in 2004) and Street Fight in Naples.

LATEST

August 1, 2014

Art Gallery NSW’s Michael Brand

Adventures in the artefact business

Statue of a kouros in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. © Jean-Pierre Lescourret/Corbis

Society

May 3, 2012

The Insult

An incurious encounter takes flight

Jose Ramos-Horta with school students in Ermera, Timor-Leste, March 2012. © Beawitharta/Reuters

Referendum

April 4, 2012

Autumn of the Patriarch

Four Days with José Ramos-Horta

Fashion icon Akira Isogawa. Image courtesy of Akira Isogawa

Arts

February 2, 2012

The Bride Wore Black

Akira Isogawa

Caravaggio's Saint Jerome, the patron saint of scholars. Wikimedia Commons

Culture

December 1, 2011

The life not lived

Reflections on scholarship

Culture

November 3, 2011

Dreamland

A journey through north-western NSW with Ivan Sen

Glenn Murcutt with a model of the house he built for Banduk Marika at Yirrkala in Arnhem Land, 2009. © Jim Trifyllis/Newspix

Culture

October 6, 2011

Fathers & sons

Meeting Glenn Murcutt

arts

September 1, 2011

The kid grows up

Meeting Alex dimitriades

A scene from Stuck Pigs Squealing's 2005 production of 'The Black Swan of Trespass'. © Brett Boardman Photography

Culture

August 1, 2011

Out of the box

Meeting Lally Katz

Chef Tony Bilson whips up some 'cucina ricca'. © Danielle Smith/Fairfax Photos

Society

June 30, 2011

Stardust memories

In search of real Italian food

Director Benedict Andrews in rehearsal for the Belvoir Street Theatre's current production, 'The Seagull'. © Heidrun Löhr

Culture

June 2, 2011

Under surveillance

Meeting Benedict Andrews

Shaun Gladwell, 'Tangara', production still, 2003. (Photographer: Josh Raymond.) Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.

Culture

May 5, 2011

Lessons in unlearning

Shaun Gladwell

Politics

March 31, 2011

Who’s afraid of Marcia Langton?

Two very unlike people have been opening up new ways of thinking about Indigenous affairs in Australia during the past several years. Noel Pearson, the known face of the new thinking, is someone settler institutions can relate to. He is male. He belongs …