Up to The Minute: A Reading Review
A Time for Everything, The Georgics of Virgil, Facial Moisturiser, Human Bondage, and A Good Man is Hard to Find.
Maren Ade Directs: Toni Erdmann and Everyone Else
Maren Ade has carved out an incisive, perceptive cinematic approach through which human relationships appear comic and bizarre, yet still deeply ambivalent. Ryan Suckling writes.
My Mother’s Shoes
my mother was a woman of the 80s and embraced colour and pattern – a zebra print jumpsuit, a full-length denim skirt, and power shoulders on every coat. Ruth Thomas…
REVIEW: Swing Time (Zadie Smith)
The question of identity and Aimee’s fame also aligns the novel with our cultural predilections, one of which is the crazed obsession – fueled by every media outlet imaginable –…
Law access walk forges new pathways to justice
For many in the community, Law Access offers the only pathway to justice available. In 2017 that pathway may be more fraught than ever. Mara Papavassiliou reports.
Intimate Partner
After reading about stealthing, I was in a lot of pain. All the details of that night and the following months came back very fast. I felt embarrassed and hurt…
Column Talk I
The Doric Column came to be seen as an unornamented and dependable figure of American sentimentality, like Atticus Finch or Abraham Lincoln. Harry Peter Sanderson writes.
Words with Cathy Lambert: The Fight to Protect our Most Vulnerable
Behind the tourist-attracting exhibits at Perth Zoo, huddles of air-conditioned cabins house some of our state’s most endangered species - Cathy Lambert, supervisor of Perth Zoo’s Native Species Breeding Program…
Is Green, Is Good: Kind Regards, Mother Nature
Stop. Heed the warning signs. Maddi Howard writes.
Words with Boat Show
Local garage pop quintet Boat Show met with Pelican in the Mojos band bathroom. Tess Bury interviews.