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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.
Reviews of the films About Schmidt; Standing in the Shadows of Motown; Taking Sides; Chicago and Bowling for Columbine.
Historians are fighting a mini war over frontier history and the number of Aboriginal dead. Tom Griffiths argues for a different approach.
Has Michel Houellebecq earned the criticism that has come his way?
The Regency spinster’s novels have never been more popular
Ralph Carolan visits The Temple Down the Road: The life and times of the MCG by Brian Matthews.
Thoughts from Rosie Hoban, Morag Fraser, Kate Stowell
Reviews of the films The Station Agent, The Passion of the Christ, The Fog of War and Irreversible.
Donald Russell reviews Hidden, a harrowing film from acclaimed French director Michael Haneke that examines racism, voyeurism and a too-comfortable middle-class family.
Michael McGirr farewells Alistair Cooke.
Terri Janke's Butterfly Song and Hsu-Ming Teo's Behind the Moon are two novels that examine the "Australian condition."
Gary Pearce reviews Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush by Colm Tóibín.
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