section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ralph Carolan
- 29 May 2006
Ralph Carolan reviews Frank McCourt's Teacher Man, and finds that the life of a teacher can be a sometimes solitary, sometimes Sisyphean, and sometimes satisfying job.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 29 May 2006
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Almost exactly 60 years ago George Orwell published a wonderful essay called, Some Thoughts on the Common Toad... The point of the essay was to insist ‘that the pleasures of spring are available to everybody, and cost nothing’.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 22 May 2006
Towards the end of a bleak, mid-February Friday, the wind started to groan through the narrow, village streets. Shutters creaked and in the valley below a filmy curtain materialised over the vines and blurred the outlines of the farmhouses.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Mitchell, Judith Bishop
- 22 May 2006
Poetry by Paul Mitchell & Judith Bishop
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- 22 May 2006
Poem by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Mary Manning interviews English novelist Salley Vickers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 22 May 2006
This story of one asylum seeker portrays the best and worst in our nature.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Stephen Holt reviews Michael Gilchrist’s Wit and Wisdom: Daniel Mannix
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 22 May 2006
Andrew Hamilton critiques Robert Manne’s Quarterly Essay, Sending them Home: Refugees and the new politics of indifference.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Beth Doherty reviews Safiya Hussaini Tungar Tudu’s I, Safiya.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Morag Fraser, Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
- 22 May 2006
Reviews of the films Monster, The Cat in the Hat, The Barbarian Invasions, and Capturing the Friedmans.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 22 May 2006
I’m fine now, really. The nightmares are receding, the rash is responding to aromatherapy and I’ve cut back the shrink to once a day.
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