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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Feeding the habit

    • Geoffrey Milne
    • 06 July 2006

    Theatre critic Geoffrey Milne took time off this summer to write two books on Australian theatre. What has drawn him into theatres more than 100 times a year over the past three decades—as a journalist and as a theatre historian? His excuse is that his university teaching demands close acquaintance with actual performances. But that’s not the whole story.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Agreeing on something

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 04 July 2006

    Andrew Hamilton surveys four books on power and the Catholic Church.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Observations from our contributors

    • Morag Fraser, David Glanz, Anthony Ham, Andrew Bullen
    • 26 June 2006

    Dr Seuss’ books, Peace under fire, The good life, Sidney Nolan

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  • RELIGION

    Letter from James

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 22 May 2006

    Football teams, empires and prime ministers rise and fall but, it is said, God’s word abides forever. True, but the books of scripture themselves also rise and fall in popularity.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Nathan Kensey, Daniel Marti, Aaron Martin, Beth Doherty
    • 14 May 2006

    Reviews of the books: Who did this to our Bali?; Off Course: From Public Place to Marketplace at Melbourne University; Dark Dreams, Australian refugee stories by young writers; A history of the devil:  From the Middle Ages to the present.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Lee Beasley, Kathryn Page, Matthew Lamb, Steve Gome
    • 14 May 2006

    Reviews of the books In Tasmania; Women and media: International perspectives; Havoc, in its third year and The Tomb in Seville.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Confessions of a thinking fogey

    • Ian Warden
    • 14 May 2006

    Besotted by books and the printed word for his first 55 years, this computer convert now finds himself getting as much pleasure from the screen as from the page.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Steve Gome, Bernard Doherty, Aaron Martin
    • 11 May 2006

    Reviews of the books: Geography; Stem Cells: Science, Medicine, Law and Ethics and John F. Kennedy: An unfinished life.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Luke O’Callaghan, John Molloy, Nathan Kensey, Rachel Hewitt
    • 11 May 2006

    Reviews of the books: A man after his own heart; The Master; Car wars: How the car won our hearts and conquered our cities; and Travellers’ Tales.  

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Time and place

    • Marcelle Mogg
    • 10 May 2006

    Amid the tragedies of September, we focus on books.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Page turner

    • Alison Aprhys
    • 10 May 2006

    Printed books still possess the power to captivate, thrill and inspire. Alison Aprhys confesses her addiction.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Kate Stowell, Lauren Hunt, Andrew Hamilton, Vincent O’Kane
    • 08 May 2006

    Reviews of the books: Portuguese Irregular Verbs; Dark nights of the soul;The people next door: Understanding Indonesia and Golden Threads: The Chinese in regional New South Wales.

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