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Author: Peter Craven

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    David Marr's penance by storytelling

    • Peter Craven
    • 20 October 2023
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    In Killing for Country, David Marr confronts Australia's dark colonial past, revealing unsettling truths about the Australian Native Police's brutal acts. Published during the Voice referendum, Marr intertwines personal ancestry with national guilt, urging Australians towards truth-telling and reconciliation. This isn't just history; it's a call for atonement.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The disquieting lessons of Ian McEwan

    • Peter Craven
    • 14 June 2023

    Ian McEwan's Lessons marked a sharp twist in a five-decade literary career, and presents an opportunity to reflect on his expansive body of work. The one-time literary rogue and Booker laureate now stands as the unquestioned doyen of modern English fiction, his audacious work perpetually navigating undercurrents of unease.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    New beaut theatre

    • Peter Craven
    • 01 July 2006

    Peter Craven on recent star-studded Australian works.

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    Hamlet in hard times

    • Peter Craven
    • 26 June 2006

    Peter Craven on John Bell’s Hamlet.

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    Shimmering darkness

    • Peter Craven
    • 07 June 2006

    Peter Craven casts light on the Dance of Death.

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