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For the comfortable middle class of the western world, politics is usually conscripted for a verbal tournament. It’s rarely a matter of life or death, more a jousting tool over dinner parties or a dance of metaphorical sabre thrusts around the garden barbecue. For 24-year-old Édouard Louis, the most compelling novelist to emerge from the
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Pachyderm is the second novel of Melbourne writer and musician Hugh McGinlay. As part of Daily Review‘s highlighting of work by self-published writers or those produced by small publishers, this novel is published by threekookaburras. McGinlay’s previous novel was Jinx and Pachyderm follows his characters milliner Catherine Kint and her best pal and barman Boris Shakovsky in another Melbourne crime caper. The
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This year’s shortlist for the National Biography Award tells us loud and clear that Australian life-story writing is in excellent shape. As one of the judges, stepping down now after three absorbing years, I am keen to hoist the flag for the genre. It may be just that having to read so many biographies and
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When Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie in 1989, even in Australia, in what was then the outer suburban offices of Penguin Books, fear changed the way we not only acted but also thought. We debated the pros and cons and many of us believed that if people are put at risk by
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Cold-pressed juices, Paleo, hot yoga, mindfulness … if you embrace these things you will be happy, you will be well. Wellness has become a trillion dollar industry, but does any of it work? Brigid Delaney decides to find out – using herself as the guinea pig. In this extract of Wellmania, Delaney, in search of
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By Shane Murphy
For those who may not be familiar with the name, Jimmy Webb (not James or Jim, but Jimmy — it’s on his birth certificate) is one of the great songwriters – primarily of the late 1960s/’70s. He wrote such classics as MacArthur Park, Wichita Lineman, By the Time I get to Phoenix and Galveston, oh … and
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Jill Rivers, a writer and arts advocate, has just self-published The Arts Apothecary – a vital prescription for health, happiness and wellbeing which provides a guide to how engagement with the arts can improve our mental and physical health. Read Rivers’ motivation for writing the book here and an edited extract of Chapter One follows below. ***
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Jill Rivers, a writer and arts advocate, has just self-published The Arts Apothecary – a vital prescription for health, happiness and wellbeing which provides a guide to how engagement with the arts can improve our mental and physical health. We asked Rivers about the motivation for writing the book. (Daily Review will publish two chapters from the The Arts
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The 50th anniversary in June of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band serves as a reminder not only of what the band achieved with that monumental album but all the great, if somewhat neglected, music that Sgt. Pepper helped to inspire for the following ten years or so. As David Weigel relates in The
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The following is an edited extract of Anna Krien’s Quarterly Essay 66, The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia’s Climate Deadlock. Krien (pictured above) is the author of Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport, Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania’s Forests and Quarterly Essay 45 Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals. In 2014
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