Rosemary Sorensen, Author at Daily Review: Film, stage and music reviews, interviews and more.

A few years back Mt Alexander Shire council in Central Victoria sent a letter to residents, seeking input into the …

Has social media influenced human interaction – even at the local library?

In the library, at the reserve shelves, I found myself standing next to a child of about six, as he …

Ellen van Neerven’s poem upset some students sitting the NSW Higher School Certificate English exam this week. They were asked …

Let us not ask what makes a politician, but rather, what makes a good politician. Judith Brett’s The Enigmatic Mr …

When Nick Mitzevich (above) was appointed director at the University of Queensland Art Museum in 2007, he was 37, and …

There are artists who explore concepts, hint at ideas, privilege ways of seeing, delve, conjure, reveal, dialogue and, of course, …

Elizabeth Kostova, international bestselling author of The Historian and The Shadow Land, was at Bendigo Writers Festival earlier this month. …

Time and tide have caught up with one of regional Victoria’s finest galleries, Castlemaine Art Museum, which will close on …

This year’s shortlist for the National Biography Award tells us loud and clear that Australian life-story writing is in excellent …

When Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie in 1989, even in Australia, in what was then the outer …