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01 May 2003
Juliette Hughes reviews the John Butler Trio’s Living 2001-2002 and The Liszt Album, and Maryanne Confoy reviews Australia’s Religious Communities.
Reviews of the films All or Nothing; Punch Drunk Love; Johnny English; and The Man Without A Past
Lots of women are Nigella-ing around their kitchens as I write; she has a lot to answer for.
Pioneer? Racist? Or product of his time?
Reviews of Just another little murder; Willie’s Bar and Grill; Islam in Australia; and Lines of my Life.
Has Michel Houellebecq earned the criticism that has come his way?
Mike Ticher reviews Hugo Hamilton’s The Speckled People.
Terry Lane on The Andren Report.
The Sant’Egidio community challenges ideologues on all sides of politics
Paul Tankard reviews 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by Roger-Pol Droit.
Notions of good and evil have become a tradeable commodity in the rhetoric that has enveloped the conflict in Iraq.
On an Australian autumn day, the human reality of war intrudes only by stealth. At a demonstration, the sound of an air raid siren evokes the terror of those who wait for bombs to fall. In a riverbank exhibition, photographs of love and tenderness hint at all that war destroys.
News from everywhere
We can all take it as read that various shivers have gone down various spines in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The real question is whether one is going down ours.
Any excuse, Privatise or perish, Clear and present danger, Keep left unless undertaking
Like Simpson’s donkey, small consolations can sometimes be seen through the smoke of war.
We are so used to the astonishing applications of genetics these days that a milestone has passed almost unnoticed.
Iraq’s Kurds continue to face an uncertain future
Some images are good enough to eat
Anthony Ham returns to the Ivory Coast and looks at its efforts.
The Regency spinster’s novels have never been more popular
Little voice
Peter Craven on recent star-studded Australian works.
George Orwell’s take on language has an increasing contemporary relevance
Michael Lapsley and the Institute for Healing of Memories
Art speaks, but we sometimes need translation
Fiction by Mary Manning