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Portraits of a fictional artist
Photographs no longer reflect the world; rather the world reflects them. They deliver a version of reality that at a surface level is consumed as “truth”.
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Czech and Slovak Film Festival at the drive-in and online
Melbourne cinema-lovers rejoice … the city’s first post-lockdown film festival is about to hit the big screen.
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Corporate novel sold to Hollywood
For those who’ve got addicted to Netflix during the pandemic, the news that a corporate novel set in the CBD is to be made into a TV series should keep them on their couches.
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I’ll have a “Sauvignon Blank” please
If it doesn’t bring you joy, don’t do it. This is one of the many pieces of advice that pepper Loner, the winner of the Text Publishing young adult fiction prize for 2020
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The stupidity of us
If you’re a Melbourne insider you have licence to sling off at the culture because the jokes have been handed down to you as a kid and you’re conditioned to pick them up.
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The words of a true writer
A book that has strongly resurfaced from its 20th century cave is The Plague by Albert Camus, an account of an imaginary epidemic in the African town of Oran in Algeria.
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Made for the home office
There’s an old adage bandied around among gallerists that when times are difficult you show difficult art.
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Keeping it light
Anna MacDonald works at the Paperback Bookshop at Bourke St and she’s published a book of essays called Between the Word and the World that deals with the concept of distance.
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A product of the virus
Virus is a word on everyone’s lips, even those of three-year-olds and literary scholars, and ideas about viruses spread incredibly rapidly across the globe.
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Dodgy moves in the corporate sector
In pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) days, corporate culture attracted quite a degree of cynical attention from both outsiders and insiders.
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Clues from the street
Koorie Heritage Trust ends the year on a celebratory high
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