Keywords: Western Literature
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INTERNATIONAL
- Bronwyn Lay
- 02 December 2008
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When Germaine Greer savaged Michelle Obama's dress, I sighed. The 'beauty' market is a challenge to feminism. In France, two extremes of fashion ideology — burqas and plastic-surgery 'mannequins' — line up to buy bread.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
he was diverted.. from the impending roast.. and wiping red wine.. from his generous lips.. he mouthed sweet nothings.. in retaliation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- James Massola
- 23 December 2006
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After discovering books by three women, a Lonely Planet editor from Melbourne resolves to follow in their footsteps, in the hope of giving some purpose to her aimless wanderlust.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Kevin Hart on the poetry and essays of Czeslaw Milosz.
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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Peter Pierce, Liz Curran, Peter Seidel, Frank Fisher
- 05 July 2006
Strange times, Cooling off in Tasmania, Where now for reconciliation?, Tides of history, Being scared of GM
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Eleanor Collins
- 01 July 2006
The Regency spinster’s novels have never been more popular
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ARTS AND CULTURE
John Sendy revisits Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Miriam Bugden, Andrew Hamilton, Chris O’Connor, Tom Rigby
- 26 June 2006
Reviews of Western Horizon: Sydney’s heartland and the future of Australian politics; Body and Soul: A Spirituality of Imaginative Creativity; One Fourteenth of an Elephant: A memoir of life and death on the Burma–Thailand Railway; What’s Right? and Giving it Away: In praise of philanthropy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- 18 June 2006
Chris Wallace-Crabbe on After Shakespeare: An Anthology and The Oxford Book of Aphorisms, both edited by John Gross.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Anthony Ham examines the life and legacy of Edward Said.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kirsty Sangster, Avril Hannah-Jones, Kirsty Sangster, Marcelle Mogg
- 15 June 2006
Reviews of Legacies of White Australia: Race, Culture and Nation; The Uniting Church in Australia: The first 25 years; Landscapes of Memory: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered and A girl, a smock and a simple plan
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AUSTRALIA
Sol Encel on the life of Professor William Macmahon Ball.
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