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The Unsual Life of Tristan Smith is an engaging if uncomfortable tale. But a closer reading reveals author Peter Carey as social critic. While themes of colonialism, migration, and identity are explicit, disability enters more subtly.
In a country which periodically agonises its way through debates about its history and frets regularly about the quality of history teaching, it is remarkable how resistant we are to embedding notes and pointers on our past in the urban and rural landscapes.
Theatre critic Geoffrey Milne took time off this summer to write two books on Australian theatre. What has drawn him into theatres more than 100 times a year over the past three decades—as a journalist and as a theatre historian? His excuse is that his university teaching demands close acquaintance with actual performances. But that’s not the whole story.
Peter Craven on John Bell’s Hamlet.
Juliette Hughes looks at the impact of The Passion of the Christ.
Dawn Delaney examines the unwelcome legacy of violence against women following the conflict in East Timor.
Between 1 January and 1 October this year I slept in at least 19 different beds.
Michele Gierck meets Ulli and Georgina Beier.
Jane Carolan enjoys an encounter with Barry Hill in The Enduring Rip: A History of Queenscliffe.
Reviews of the films Bad Education, Young Adam, Look at Me and Robots.
The journey towards understanding our depression can be the most worthwhile, and the most taxing, that we ever make
Reviews of the films Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; The Brothers Grimm; Good Night, and Good Luck; and The Constant Gardener.