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Leo Schofield

Letters to the Editor - November 2017

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November 2017, no. 396

Comments from ABR readers, published in the November Arts Issue of Australian Book Review.

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Letters to the Editor - September 2016

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September 2016, no. 384

Dear Editor, Melbourne geographer Peter Christoff may be right that Australia should shake off its island mentality, but he is wrong to suggest that Australia has become much ...

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Stage Door | Michael Shmith interviews Leo Schofield

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April 2016, no. 380

In the early 1990s, after Leo Schofield was – not without controversy – appointed the artistic director of the Melbourne Festival, Clive James referred to our own emerging cultural tsar as 'Australia's Diaghilev'. Which, I guess, retrospectively makes Sergei Pavlovich Russia's Schofield.

There is an element of truth in James's witticism, especially these ...

Letters to the Editor - March 2016

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March 2016, no. 379

OPEN LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER AND MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND BORDER CONTROL

Dear Prime Minister and Minister Dutton,

As writers committed to protecting and defending human rights, and as citizens of conscience, we the undersigned wish to express our deep abhorrence of the ongoing mistreatment of refugees in Australia's offshore detention centres.

A ...

One Continuous Picnic: A gastronomic history of Australia by Michael Symons

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April 2007, no. 290
Leo Schofield reviews 'One Continuous Picnic: A gastronomic history of Australia' by Michael Symons

For almost half of the twentieth century, train passengers travelling into Sydney from the western suburbs and beyond could observe a large sign, painted in drop-shadow lettering, on the vast blank brick wall of an industrial building facing the tracks between Redfern and Central. It carried the message: TEAGUE’S HAMBURGER ROLLS – WHAT YOU EAT TODAY, WALKS AND TALKS TOMORROW.

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