Archive
Encyclopedia of Exploration, 1850–1940: The oceans, islands and polar regions by Raymond John Howgego
by Ian Morrison •
The War of the World: History’s age of hatred by Niall Ferguson
by Geoffrey Blainey •
Faces of the Living Dead: The belief in spirit photography by Martyn Jolly
by Isobel Crombie •
It is one thing for Macbeth (of whom more in a moment) to chide himself for ‘vaulting ambition’; it is not, though, the first stick we would choose to beat Australian cinema with. Now, with 2006 nearly over and everybody saying what a good year it has been for local films, I want to identify ‘ambition’ as a key element in the making of this ‘good year’.
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by Rebecca Starford •
Old Myths: Modern empires: power, language and identity in J.M. Coetzee’s work by Michela Canepari-Labib
by Gillian Dooley •
Blessings and praise
to the dark entanglement of caught branches
I continue to see,
after years of crossing the causeway,
as a black swan
holding her place in the current, her head
held resolute and serene,
her cygnets the shadows that advance and recede
in the eddies she makes going nowhere.
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