Letters to the Editor
Captain’s choice
Dear Editor,
What a hotchpotch event (‘Vipers and Whistleblowers’, January–February 2015). How can the Prime Minister’s Literary Awar ...
Radiant Young Leaders
Dear Editor,
Are Richard Broinowski (and family) seeking to don the mantle of apologists for the rulers of North Korea (review of Paul French ...
Intimate times
Dear Editor,
Tim Byrne, in his review of Meredith Burgmann’s Dirty Secrets: Our ASIO Files badly misread my complaints about my records. He writes that my [and Gary Foley’s] ‘movements were intimately tracked’. The whole ...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Dear Editor,
I was very disappointed that the review ‘Putin and the Kleptocrats’ gave such a misleading impression of Mikhail Khodorkovsky (August 2014). Nick Hordern seemed to have no idea of Khodorkovsky’s ...
Just war theory
Dear Editor,
Andrew Alexandra is not persuaded by my defence of war (June–July 2014). I am not persuaded by his attack on it.
... (read more)Small talk
Dear Editor,
Your reviewer, Colin Steele, was too kind in his appraisal of Professor Helen Small’s disturbingly inadequate attempt to make a case for the humanities in her book The Value of the Humanities (May 2014 ...
Electricity
Dear Editor,
Brian McFarlane’s review of Michael Blakemore’s memoir of his years at the National Theatre (February 2014) reminded me of my own experience of Laurence Olivier’s performance in Long Day’s Journey into Night ...
Harry Seidler and posterity
Dear Editor,
Congratulations for publishing Philip Goad’s excellent review of Helen O’Neill’s biography of Harry Seidler (February 2014), which was a complete contrast to Elizabeth Farrelly’s derogatory review in the Sydney Morning Herald (11–12 January 2014).
Goad is right to stress Seidler’s inte ...