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Stuart Kells is a rare kind of writer. He is able to tackle global economic power on one hand, and, on the other, write with panache and credibility about whether Shakespeare was a literary conspiracy. He has a friendly, warm style, and packs in heaps of information without lecturing. If ours were a more populous
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Since Richard Flanagan won the Man Booker Prize in 2014 for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Australia’s representation on the most influential of Western literary prizes has been zilch. Not one Australian novel has made the longlist, let alone the shortlist. Certainly, the competition has increased, since the prize opened to the United
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Say you wanted to write your own reactions to, and feelings about, what’s happened this week, the news as it’s reported on the internet alongside things that have happened in your personal life. You can blog or tweet, write articles for print and online newspapers and journals, but any stream of your consciousness is always
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The last book of any author is a testament to their talent. Some, like F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon, are unfinished, unsatisfying and taken from them before they were done. Others, such as George Orwell’s 1984, are the culmination of a life’s work and perhaps unsatisfying because readers wonder what might have been with
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The digital realm is not what it seems, and impacts on music curation in myriad and hidden ways, says Tully Barnett, one of the lead researchers in the Flinders University team Laboratory Adelaide: The Value of Culture. Barnett and Julian Meyrick and Robert Phiddian are co-authors of What Matters? – Talking Value in Australian Culture (Monash University
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This wondrous book, What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson, has been called the work of someone old-fashioned, cranky and difficult. It appears that is now what we call writing that “will flame out like shining from shook foil”, to quote a line from Gerard Manley Hopkins as Robinson does herself to describe the unbounded
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All roads lead to Shakespeare. Atlas of emotions, roadmap of the soul, landscape of the inner terrain. These things are the geography of Shakespeare’s world. In his depiction and exploration of this place the internal battles do not change over the centuries. For at heart, the base elements of thought and deed are recognisable whether
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Below is an extract from Daily Review contributor Rozanna Lilley’s new book Do Oysters Get Bored? A Curious Life (UWA Publishing, 2018) which, among other things, is about raising her son with autism and her relationship with her father, the poet Merv Lilley. In this chapter, Rozanna Lilley recalls her mother, the late, great playwright Dorothy Hewett and her enduring presence. ***
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The French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe spoke eloquently, and from the heart, this week when he drew forth the words of Erich Maria Remarque to speak of the death and sacrifice of soldiers on the Western Front. Remarque, who fought for Germany during WWI, a decade after the war ended, wrote what quickly became a classic,
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The Australian Publishers Association has announced the longlist for 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). The list was voted for by the ABIA Academy, a group of publishers, booksellers, agents, media and industry representatives. A shortlist will be released on April 19 with the winners announced on May 3. ABIA LONGLIST 2018 Biography Book of the Year · A
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