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Reviews of the films Hero; The story of the weeping camel; In my father’s den and Steamboy.
Born in Melbourne in 1954 to Polish-German parents, Peter Bakowski has been writing poetry for over twenty years. His poems have been published in literary journals wordwide and have been translated into many languages. His first book In the human night won the Victorian Premiers Award for Poetry.
To the extent that novels exist to provide insights into character, minds and decisions, Tom Keneally's new novel is arguably his best.
Images from the Burnley tunnel accident showed thick plumes of smoke billowing from the outlet chimney. If a shark kills a lone swimmer off a beach, we call for netting or shooting. We have a much more lenient attitude towards roads.
They say after the storm / you should check the tide pools / for fallen stars. From 17 October 2006.
In the end, Thorpe was swimming against himself. There were rivals, but there was nothing left, other than the treadmill of performances. The admission came in his last conference: "I needed a closing point." There is reason for him to be proud.
They say after the storm / you should check the tide pools / for fallen stars.
Charles Coppel argues that there was no empirical evidence to support Jack Waterford's view in the last Eureka Street, that there was a kind of Chinese Holocaust in Indonesia in 1965. The victims of the 1965 anti-communist massacre were overwhelmingly Javanese and Balinese, and the slaughter was politicide rather than genocide.
If the Federal Government is serious about history, it should be devoting as much time to having us understand the history of our neighbours, and having our neighbours understand our sense of our own. It's mostly virgin territory.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is the 12th book by Haruki Murakami in English translation, and his second collection of short fiction. This collection of short stories spans Murakami’s career, from 1978 when he sold the jazz club he ran with his wife, through to 2005.
Despite overweening corporate visions, the exploding lights and multicultural crowds of New York's Times Square show that people will continue to claim their right to be part of the city spectacle.
Dorothy Horsfield reports on the rebuilding of Afghanistan.
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