Books, News & Commentary Authors of the Goldfields on home and place Rosemary Sorensen Down our road and around the corner, people have recently built a tiny house on what was once grazing land. …
News & Commentary Twitter’s book burning mob comes for author John Marsden Rosemary Sorensen In Hong Kong right now, there are people standing in the subway train doors, preventing them from closing, and, when …
News & Commentary, Screen, Stage, Visual Arts So you think you’re a ‘creative’? Not until unless you’re fluent in ‘agency-speak’ Rosemary Sorensen Confused about what a creative industry is? It’s simple: film, TV, video games and digital culture. That’s what the Australian …
Music, News & Commentary, Screen What would Umberto Eco think of a Michael Jackson ‘Tribute Show’? Rosemary Sorensen Umberto Eco’s 1985 essay that was the centrepiece of his book, Faith in Fakes, asked questions about why United States …
News & Commentary Julian Assange the literary festival guest, and the casual cruelty of the media Rosemary Sorensen Back in 2016, Bendigo Writers Festival hosted an event with Julian Assange. Robert Manne had written a small book about …
Books, News & Commentary Ah Louise Adler…..She’s Done it Again Rosemary Sorensen Ah Louise…. She’s done it again. Seriously, if she didn’t exist, we’d need to invent her. Not a decade had …
Books, Non-Fiction, Reviews We need to talk about God (but not how Greg Sheridan does) Rosemary Sorensen God needs a name change. It’s time to park the old God jalopy in the shed and force ourselves to …
News & Commentary 2018 has, sadly, made the novel increasingly irrelevant Rosemary Sorensen All those end of year pronouncements about what a year it’s been, what’s been the biggest issues and who has …
Books, News & Commentary In Praise of Andrew McGahan Rosemary Sorensen Andrew McGahan’s first book, the disturbingly comic Praise, defined him as a Queensland writer, and that stuck. Even though he …
Books, Non-Fiction, Reviews To honour the dead: Maryrose Cluskelly’s ‘Wedderburn’ book review Rosemary Sorensen When we read true crime, we might think it’s about trying to work out why people commit murder, what leads …