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On ‘Coonardoo’, by Katharine Susannah Prichard
COONARDOO TAKES PLACE in 1929 at Wytaliba, a remote cattle station in the north of Western Australia. It is a...
On ‘Radiance’, by Louis Nowra
DRAMA IS NOT about what gets said and done but what gets understood. The ostensible content of a play...
On ‘Carry Me Down’, by MJ Hyland
MARIA (MJ) HYLAND'S extraordinary second novel, Carry Me Down, was published in 2006, two years after her debut, How...
On ‘The Macquarie Pen Anthology of Australian Literature’
WHAT IS AN anthology? The term comes from two Greek words meaning ‘flower’ and ‘collection’. Anthologies, then, are collections...
On ‘Hotel Sorrento’, by Hannie Rayson
HANNIE RAYSON'S WELL-loved Hotel Sorrento, which premiered onstage in 1991 and was made into a feature film in 1995,...
On ‘Collected Stories’, by Janette Turner Hospital
AS I WRITE this essay the cicadas are shrill outside. The air is heavy and even in my cool...
On ‘Remember Ronald Ryan’, by Barry Dickins
'PLEASE ADMIT THE bearer…to the execution of Ronald Joseph Ryan, on 3rd February, 1967.’ This invitation, received by journalists covering...
The new wave
LATELY, THREE LOCALLY made films have escaped Adelaide for the world, all directed by women. Sophie Hyde’s 52 Tuesdays,...
The Palais
WHEN RUBY FIRST moves to town she stays with the Miss Wrights on Prospect Road, on the recommendation of...
Adelaide detours
From the southWhat is the smoke?Is this a city or somethingmore inexplicable?Don’t talk of alleys, this isa suburb, see...
Fly in, fly far away
THE ARGUMENT IN the car starts the way it always does. One brother’s arm is around the other’s shoulders,...
Dispatches from the radical centre
SOUTH AUSTRALIANS HAVE a reputation for being a little bit up themselves. They speak with soft-toned vowels. They boast...
