Essay Archives

IF YOU'RE LOOKING for an example of how a classic literary text can speak to the present, you could...

By Nicholas Jose

LIKE TINY TERRORISTS, a slew of toxic memories from the last twenty years swarm through my mind when considering...

By Julian Meyrick

AMERICAN ENTERTAINMENT PAYS its tributes in dollars. It has award ceremonies but we know that Oscars lead to box...

By Anthony May

These Arts, in their highest province, are addressed ... to the desires of the mind ... impatient of being...

By Frank Moorhouse

IN SEPTEMBER 2008, I was in London during the Olympics and the English press was rampant with joy that...

RUPERT MURDOCH, HIS father, Keith – and in prospect his sons – are best understood as freelance official propagandists....

By Bruce Page

Shortlisted, 2009 Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize, The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public DebateON A JULY evening...

By Helen O’Neil

WE CLING TO the legitimate expectation that the noble exchange of information between elected representatives and the nation's media...

By Nick Richardson

SOMETHING IS MISSING from the debates about teaching history in Australian schools, even though their explosive, raw and at...

By Maria Tumarkin

‘PRIMARILY, WE HISTORIANS write books – and academic articles,' Yale historian Dr Jay Gitlin said in a history documentary...

By Ann McGrath

IMAGINE THE GREAT Hall at the University of Sydney, packed row after row with teenagers, being asked to write...

This is to let you know that I have arrived safely in Australia and am being detained in immigration...

By Susan Varga