In light of recent events
Who’s preferencing whom?June 20, 2012
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Vale, Alan Saunders
Philosopher and ABC Radio National broadcaster Alan Saunders died of pneumonia, aged 58, on Friday, 15 June. The following is a selection of his writing for the Monthly from over the years, as a tribute to the man and his work.
Food for Thought (July 2010)
Something about Mary (June 2010)
Good Neighbours (March 2010)
Strictly Speaking (April 2010)
Tried Again (December 2009)
School for Gangsters (November 2009)
Socratic Dialogues (October 2009)
City Lights (August 2009)
Last Man Standing (March 2009)
Cooking with Love (December 2006)
Ghost notes: Simon Tedeschi’s ‘Fugitive’
A virtuoso memoir of music and trauma, and his experiences as a child prodigy, from the acclaimed Australian pianist
The quip and the dead: Steve Toltz’s ‘Here Goes Nothing’
A bleakly satirical look at death and the afterlife from the wisecracking author of ‘A Fraction of the Whole’
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Remembrance or forgetting?
The Australian War Memorial and the Great Australian Silence
Property damage
What will it take for Australia to fix the affordable housing crisis?
Present indicative: Daniel Johns’ ‘FutureNever’
The former Silverchair frontman’s second solo album lacks cohesion, but affords him space to excavate his past
