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Culture November 30, 2019
The Shelf Life of Zora Cross
Zora Cross was a poet and journalist writing a hundred years ago. The obviousness of the assertion that if she had been a man we would be considerably more familiar with her oeuvre doesn’t make the reality of it any less enraging. Her 1917 poetry collection, …
Culture September 28, 2019
Pills, Powder, and Smoke
While our government, under the guise of “compassionate conservatism”, announces plans to drug-test welfare recipients, journalist Antony Loewenstein brings us Pills, Powder, and Smoke, the result of more than four years’ investigation …
Culture October 26, 2019
Bruny
Something is rotten in the state of Tasmania. When the Bruny bridge is bombed while under construction, United Nations conflict resolution expert Astrid Coleman’s twin brother, JC – who also happens to be the Tasmanian premier – asks her home from …
Culture August 03, 2019
Hearing Maud
We live in an age where memoirs arrive thick and fast, and a book deal comes easiest to those in the public eye. When there’s little money in skewering yourself for general consumption unless fame has first taken its toll, it’s unlikely a memoirist …
