Culture
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Art helps veterans and first responders heal from post-traumatic stress and depression
“My vehicle rolled 175 metres down a mountain and my partner and I are extremely lucky to be alive,” she…
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The Father movie review: Superb, low-key film captures the profound heartache of ageing
The Father is not flashy. Wenlei Ma news.com.au It doesn’t have gunfights, a rousing monologue or an epic historical ……
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Botticelli to Van Gogh: from luminous, lyrical beauty to the spoils of empire
The two events are not connected, but they do signal how times have changed. Joanna Mendelssohn The Conversation Since 1963,…
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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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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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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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How a lost manuscript revealed the first poets of Italian literature
That was the world of the early Italian Renaissance during the second half of the 15th century. Maria Clotilde Camboni…
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How Greek musicians weathered an economic crisis could help UK performers handle COVID fall-out
Opening a virtual concert in support of music workers, his words were emotional – but firm: Ioannis Tsioulakis The Conversation…
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Decoding the music masterpieces: Handel’s Messiah oratorio, composed in just 24 days
It’s a tradition worth noticing, as the Messiah was originally composed as an Easter offering, first performed in Dublin on…
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10 ‘lost’ Australian literary treasures you should read – and can soon borrow from any library
Effectively, they have become inaccessible and invisible — even including some Miles Franklin award winners by authors such as Thea…
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Asian countries do aged care differently.
Unlike in Western countries like Australia, traditional Asian cultures place a heavy emphasis on filial piety — the expectation children…
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Pandora’s Jar by Natalie Haynes review – ancient misogyny
For the past few years, Natalie Haynes has been building a career out of rescuing the women of the ancient…
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Two of Us: inside John Lennon’s incredible songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney
His tendency to speak in bold strokes – “Before Elvis there was nothing!” – belied at times both the variety…
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Review: Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams considers griefs big and small
A rolling incineration of large swathes of the continent, the sky itself seemed to have been on fire, from the…
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A magpie’s song that lifted the darkness: new opera tells potent tale
“But they sing, and sing to you. And that carolling is the most glorious thing.” Nick Miller WA Today In…
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Exposing the ways we try to hide our inner selves
It made perfect sense. Nicole Abade Good Weekend in The Sydney Morning Herald I loved reading and language, and my…
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