Books
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Shoeshops, tailors, TV repairs: a photographic homage to Melbourne’s vanishing small businesses is a form of time travel
Small Business, his new book of photographs, transports us to Melbourne’s vanishing architecture of interior workplaces created by largely working-class,…
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How to unlock music as key to the art of remembering
During that time, people have regularly approached with me a similar set of befuddling stories and questions. Lisa Genove The…
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Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide: Denial, State Deception, Truth versus Politicization of History
This book follows the author’s gutsy campaign against his government and his quest to successfully hold the conference in the…
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Christianity has touched Australian law more deeply than we admit
How far does a person’s faith shape their professional life? Michael Pelly Financial Review And when it comes to politics…
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After a year of digital learning and virtual teaching, let’s hear it for the joy of real books
More surprising, perhaps, is the impact these lockdowns have had on children’s and young people’s self-reported enjoyment of books and…
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‘Music is a way of reclaiming time’: Behrouz Boochani’s lauded memoir becomes a poetic musical event
A little blond girl plays in the shallows at Christmas Island, oblivious to a tugboat filled with exhausted refugees pulling…
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Omissa Spe*
Academics used to have privileges not enjoyed by the majority of the workforce: job security, flexible hours, access to great…
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Book review: Open Minds explores how academic freedom and the public university are at risk
Yet the concept is rarely examined or critiqued in detail. Peter Tregear The Conversation That has not stopped it becoming…
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Nobel winner Kazuo Ishiguro reaches for the sun
Our narrator, Klara, is a robot, an “Artificial Friend”, or AF, designed as a subservient companion for children. Liam Pieper…
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How The U.S. Is Killing Off The Death Penalty
The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty,” examines America’s uneasy history of capital punishment. Melissa Jeltsen HuffPost One of…
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Guide to the classics: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — still for the heretics, dreamers and rebels
What is it that makes Alice, in the words of literary critic, Harold Bloom, “a kind of Scripture for us”…
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Isabel Allende: ‘Everyone called me crazy for divorcing in my 70s. I’ve never been scared of being alone’
The Chilean American author Isabel Allende was a feminist long before she knew what the word meant. Fiona Sturges The Guardian At…
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Understanding John F. Kennedy: A conversation with acclaimed historian and JFK biographer professor Fredrik Logevall
There are memories of a lionized hero and the glamor and triumph of a public life cut short by a…
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Empathy starts early: 5 Australian picture books that celebrate diversity
It is also crucial in cultivating compassion towards others. Authors The Conversation Children from minority backgrounds rarely see themselves ……
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Beverley Farmer and the solitude of the writing life
In February 1987, when she wrote these words, Beverley Farmer was the author of two collections of short fiction and…
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Poirot at 100: the refugee detective who stole Britain’s heart
That man, of course, was Hercule Poirot, who made his debut in Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles,…
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