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Desley Deacon
Desley Deacon is Emeritus Professor of History at the Australian National University.
Books & arts
Fantales
Desley Deacon
4 July 2023
How Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, David Gulpilil and Nicole Kidman crossed the psychic gangway between Sydney and Hollywood
Books & arts
There’s no going back
Desley Deacon
30 October 2020
Cinema
| What went wrong with this update of Hitchcock’s classic?
Essays & reportage
With royalty at Riven Rock
Desley Deacon
18 August 2020
Harry and Meghan’s new home comes with a history of American aristocrats, primate research and the quest for the contraceptive pill
Books & arts
Euripides’s thunderclap
Desley Deacon
26 February 2020
Theatre
| Zoe Caldwell, who died last week, was the second Australian to perform Medea to wide acclaim
Essays & reportage
That quite indescribable miracle
Desley Deacon
10 December 2019
Inspired by Nellie Melba, Judith Anderson carved out a career on stage and screen