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Feeding the Ghost 1: Criticism on contemporary Australian poetry edited by Andy Kissane, David Musgrave, and Carolyn Rickett
Tiberius with a Telephone: The life and stories of William McMahon by Patrick Mullins
Shifting the Boundaries: The University of Melbourne 1975–2015 by Carolyn Rasmussen
Crashed: How a decade of financial crises changed the world by Adam Tooze
What I’ve come to expect of a new Mike Leigh film is, above all, the unexpected. His first feature, Bleak Moments (1971), of which there were quite a few in that contemporary study of urban, lower-middle class life, made him a potent force in British film. Think of Naked (1993) and Secrets & Lies (1996) ...
... (read more)David Goldblatt: Photographs 1948–2018 (Museum of Contemporary Art)
Perhaps the best way to influence the thoughts of another is to do so without intent. South African photographer David Goldblatt once said he did not believe that ‘any photograph of mine would ever influence anybody in the slightest degree’. Yet his photographs of his country’s apartheid era reach down into the very heart of ...
... (read more)The Indian World of George Washington: The first president, the first Americans, and the birth of the nation by by Colin G. Calloway
An American Language: The history of Spanish in the United States by Rosina Lozano
Follow the leader: Democracy and the rise of the strongman (Quarterly Essay 71) by Laura Tingle
Australian musical theatre has had a long if chequered history going back to the popular, localised melodramas and pantomimes of the nineteenth century. In the more recent past, we think of successes such as Priscilla Queen of the Desert (1994) and The Boy from Oz (2003) ...
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