Espionage fiction is Australia’s unloved genre, but how we speak, write and think about Australia’s intelligence gathering and espionage activities matters.
Author Lily Brett and co-stars of Treasure, Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry.
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Too Many Men won acclaim for its depiction of a father and daughter and their different emotional responses to the crimes of the past. Tess Scholfield-Peters considers the book’s impact today.
Rachel Cusk’s twelfth novel is strange, compelling and ferociously intelligent. It explores artists, mothers and daughters, and the ‘blankness of spirituality’ on the other side of gender.
Australian soldiers firing on Japanese positions on Mount Shiburangu near Wewak, Papua New Guinea, June 1945.
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Holocaust stories have often been criticised for their distortions and misrepresentations, but they can also encourage audiences to learn from history.
Gail Jones has written a richly evocative novel that warrants attention, both for its fascinating subject-matter and for its outstanding writerly qualities.
Wassily Kandinsky – Composition 8 (1923).
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