History
The Commonwealth Games: Extraordinary stories behind the medals by Brian Oliver
Forbidden Music by Michael Haas & Hollywood and Hitler by Thomas Doherty
Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the emergence of identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Inside the Dream Palace: The life and times of New York's legendary Chelsea hotel by Sherill Tippins
The Literary Churchill: Author, reader, actor by Jonathan Rose
Dangerous Allies by Malcolm Fraser, with Cain Roberts
In Australia, thinking ‘landscape’, ‘country’, and ‘place’ virtually interchangeable is the hallmark of a migrant society. This is obvious because of the skeleton at our feast, the contrast between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal ways of seeing land. Both can agree that ‘there’s no place like home’, because ‘place’ here means ‘a place’, a particular place, home. But non-Aboriginal writing commonly separates ‘place’ and ‘home’ – two centuries ago because that was literally so; now often as proof that Australia is multicultural.
... (read more)In Iris Murdoch’s novel, The Sandcastle (1957), a young artist called Rain Carter is commissioned to paint a retired schoolmaster, Demoyte, an eccentric with an offbeat sense of humour. Instead of his usual attire – a shabby red velvet jacket with tobacco stains and bow tie – Demoyte turns up ...
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