BOOK REVIEW: Stories: The Collected Short Fiction
By Helen Garner Helen Garner is a versatile wordsmith. Should she ever require a curriculum vitae (unlikely as that seems), her résumé would include: novelist, short fiction writer, journalist, critic,...
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by Magdalena McGuire “I, Anna Izabela Skowron ‘ ska, do hereby confess.” I recall as a teenager watching grainy TV pictures of Lech Wałęsa, hero of Poland’s labour movement and head of the trade union...
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By Heather Rose “…in truth, pain is the stone that art sharpens itself on time after time.” Marina Abramović is a living woman whose life and work have been skilfully interwoven into the narrative of...
View ArticleWinding Up the Week #362
An end of week recap “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.” – Lewis Carroll (born 27th January 1832) This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and...
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