Culture
October 1, 2014‘Golden Boys’ by Sonya Hartnett
Penguin; $29.99
Robyn Annear
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September 1, 2014
Yesterday’s gone
In the rush online, newspapers have deleted yesterday, today and tomorrow
May 1, 2014
The return of the Tichborne Claimant
A recent play resurrects a 150-year-old case of imposture
Culture
April 1, 2014Perth goes boom
A week among the arts in the City of Light
Society
March 1, 2014Old folks, new technology
Can senior citizens bridge the digital divide?
World War I
February 1, 2014Re-evaluating World War One
Margaret MacMillan’s ‘The War That Ended Peace’, Paul Ham’s ‘1914’ and David Reynolds’ ‘The Long Shadow’
Non-Fiction
December 1, 2013Bill Garner’s ‘Born in a Tent’
NewSouth Books; $39.99
December 1, 2013
Human encounters with the Great Barrier Reef
Iain McCalman’s ‘The Reef: A passionate history’
November 1, 2013
Clare Wright’s ‘The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka’
The full moon had a lot to answer for
October 1, 2013
Puzzling the purpose of Australian literary magazines
Unripe fruit
essay
May 1, 2013Hashtag feminism
‘Destroying the Joint’
Books
April 1, 2013‘All That Is’
By James Salter
February 1, 2013
Next Time
The lessons and literature of Black Saturday
Literature
December 6, 2012Ballarat–Colac Road
After our daughter flew out of the country, we took three weeks’ holiday. We’d thought of going to New Zealand but changed our minds. If, in her early weeks away, she should need money, need something, need us, it’d be better that we were …
November 1, 2012
‘The Testament of Mary’ by Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín’s last book was titled New Ways To Kill Your Mother. In The Testament of Mary he sticks to the old ways. Mary of Nazareth bears witness, in this 100-page novella, to what befell her son. It’s a …