Monash contributor
Rags of snow unmelting on the southern lawn.
Those younger ones, whose death turns
on the hair’s-breadth incidence of accident,
avoid this perduration of slow misrecognition.
Not Quite Australian: How temporary migration is changing the nation by Peter Mares
Phillip Schuler: The remarkable life of one of Australia’s greatest war correspondents by Mark Baker
The Australian National Dictionary: Second Edition edited by Bruce Moore
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera (Art Gallery of New South Wales)
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are, without a doubt, the two most famous Mexican artists of the twentieth century, as notorious for their scandalous relationship and political views as they were for their creative genius. She was twenty-one years younger than him; he was a communist ...
... (read more)It is possible that the remainder of 2016 may produce a more memorable film than Sunset Song, but I doubt it. None so far has moved and enthralled me as Terence Davies' latest has. How I wish he didn't keep us waiting so long between films. It was the semi-autobiographical Distant Voices ...
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