July 2010

July 2010

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A Green balance?
Labor Party candidate Maxine McKew with a fan. During the 2007 federal election campaign for the NSW seat of Bennelong at which she defeated the sitting Prime Minister John Howard. © Samh_78/Flickr
Labor Party candidate Maxine McKew with a fan. During the 2007 federal election campaign for the NSW seat of Bennelong at which she defeated the sitting Prime Minister John Howard. © Samh_78/Flickr

Family and relationships

Life sentence

By Victoria Laurie

Fire walk with me
Inside the Amazon warehouse, Fernley, Nervada, 2003. © Macduff Everton/Corbis

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Tim Burton. 'Blue Girl with Wine' c. 1997. Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 55.9 cm. Private collection © Tim Burton

Art

Primal scenes

By John Baxter

Tim Burton: The exhibition

A recyclable and re-configurable shop design for Aesop by March Studio, Flinders Lane, Melbourne. © Amanda de Simone

Society

Food for thought

By Alan Saunders

The State of Design Festival

Ben (Joel Edgerton, left) and Fiona (Radha Mitchell) in Kolkata in the scene from Claire McCarthy's "The Waiting City." A Hopscotch film release. In cinemas July 15, 2010.

Society

Births, deaths and marriages

By Luke Davies

Claire McCarthy’s ‘The Waiting City’ and Mona Achache’s ‘The Hedgehog’

Laurie Aarons with Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito, Belgrade, May 1969, on route to the last meeting of the international communist movement in Moscow. © Mark Aarons

History

Family intelligence

By Martin Krygier

Mark Aarons’ ‘The Family File’

Bret Easton Ellis, 2008. © David Factor/Corbis Outline

The public mind

By Delia Falconer

Bret Easton Ellis’ ‘Imperial Bedrooms’

Rock and roll babble on

Music

Rock and roll babble on

By Robert Forster

Nick Kent’s ‘Apathy for the Devil: A 1970s Memoir’

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'Indelible Ink' by Fiona McGregor, Scribe Publications, 464pp; $32.95
'Ilustrado' by Miguel Syjuco, Random House, 306pp; $32.95
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Shane Maloney and Chris Grosz
Words: Shane Maloney | Illustration: Chris Grosz
July 2010