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Books & arts
Kindling
Terry Lane
6 October 2010
Terry Lane
reads a few new novels, and a pile of old ones, on his brand new Kindle, and discovers that it’s not always the same experience
Books & arts
The truth and nothing but
Brian McFarlane
16 September 2010
Maria Edgeworth’s last novel shows the influence of Jane Austen but also foreshadows Elizabeth Gaskell’s broader social range, writes
Brian McFarlane
Podcasts
Great expectations
Peter Clarke
2 December 2009
Chrissy Sharp
and
Michael Williams
talk to
Peter Clarke
about Melbourne’s new literary hub, the Wheeler Centre
Books & arts
Suburban mayhem
Andrew Lynch
17 June 2009
The Slap
captures contemporary Australian life?
Andrew Lynch
isn’t so sure
Books & arts
Gulfs of desire
Peter Craven
15 June 2009
Peter Craven
reviews Colm Tóibín’s
Brooklyn
Books & arts
Nineteen Eighty-Four turns sixty
Brian McFarlane
9 June 2009
It hasn’t happened yet, but
Nineteen Eighty-Four
has enough threads of prescience to keep us alert, writes
Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
The rise and rise of Jane Austen
Brian McFarlane
4 May 2009
No matter how bad the adaptation or how silly the praise, Jane Austen’s novels contain some of the truest insights into human behaviour ever committed to the page, writes…
Books & arts
When towers topple
Glenn Nicholls
20 April 2009
David Malouf’s Trojan tale soars then sinks, writes
Glenn Nicholls
Books & arts
Slowly humanised
Judith Armstrong
3 February 2009
Judith Armstrong
reviews Irène Némirovsky’s novel about a terrorist and his target
Books & arts
Reading Agatha Christie
Dennis Altman
5 January 2009
Just below the surface is another, less orderly world, writes
Dennis Altman
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