Griffith Review 65: Crimes and Punishments by Ashley Hay (Editor)
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Category: Periodical | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
What is it about crime stories that make people hunger for them? The volume of content produced in these genres - from the pages of mysteries and thrillers to audio and visual dramas and reconstructions - hints at a primal and deeply ingrained fascination with the darker side of human nature. While crim ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 76: Red Flag: Waking Up to China's Challenge by Peter Hartcher
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Category: Periodical | Series: QUARTERLY ESSAY 76
China has become a key nation for Australia's future - for our security, economy and identity. But what are China's intentions and strategy when it comes to Australia? In this gripping account, Peter Hartcher shows that we are entering an era of undeclared contestation, whether for hearts and minds, mi ...Show more
Griffith Review 67: Matters of Trust by Ashley Hay
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Category: Periodical | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
From our first experiences to our last, institutions structure our world - through education and medicine to politics, justice, civics and religion. But in recent years even the most entrenched of institutions are seemingly on the edge of implosion. Either through deliberate political attacks or as an e ...Show more
Griffith Review 68: Getting On by Ashley Hay
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Category: Periodical | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
In a world where seventy is the new fifty, old age isn't what it used to be.By 2060, the ratio of Australians aged over sixty-five will have passed one in four. This unprecedented demographic transformation marks a quiet revolution with far-reaching consequences for both individuals and wider society.As ...Show more
Limelight April 2021 by Limelight
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Category: Periodical
Cover story- Wunderkind- We are all familiar with child prodigies who made it big - Mozart, Marta Argerich, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Daniel Barenboim, Lang Lang among others. What makes a child prodigy? Why is the classical music world so obsessed with them? How does this affect the young musicians? And what ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 83: Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power by Lech Blaine
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Category: Periodical | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Who can be a larrikin and how is it used politically? The figure of the larrikin goes deep in Australian culture. But who can be a larrikin, and what are its political uses? This brilliant essay looks at Australian politics through the prisms of class, egalitarianism and masculinity. Lech Blaine exami ...Show more
The Happy Reader - Issue 16 by Penguin Classics
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The sixteenth issue of The Happy Reader, the bookish bi-annual published by Penguin Classics in collaboration with Fantastic ManFor avid readers and the uninitiated alike, this is a chance to reengage with classic literature and to stay inspired and entertained.The concept of the magazine is simple- the ...Show more
Limelight November 2021 by Limelight
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Category: Periodical
Cover story- The Dismissal It's time! Prepare yourself for the rollicking, new musical about the 1975 dismissal of Gough Whitlam, co-produced by Sydney Theatre Company, Squabbalogic and Canberra Theatre Centre. We talk to Jay James-Moody, Blake Erickson and Laura Murphy, who wrote the all-singing, all-d ...Show more
HEAT Series 3 Number 1 by Christine Alexandra
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Category: Periodical | Series: Heat Ser.
HEAT, Giramondo’s celebrated literary journal, relaunches in a third series.‘An edgy and enormously influential literary magazine…’ – The Australian‘A really lively magazine like HEAT can create the occasion for new writing as well as being an outlet for it, a wish on the part of writers to write up to ...Show more