Culture

  • St Kilda Writers Festival

    St Kilda Writers FestivalMELBOURNE — The beachside suburb of St Kilda is well known for its bohemian, slightly seedy atmosphere and associated in the popular mind with the artistic and eccentric. It seems a logical

  • The real Bunji

    Bunji: A story of the Gwalwa Daraniki movement By Bill Day Aboriginal Studies Press, 1994. 156 pp. Reviewed by Deb Sorensen There is a consistently unfunny comic strip which appears in the Northern Territory News titled Bunji. On first

  • Sinead and the Famine

    Sinead and the Famine Universal Mother Sinead O'Connor Ensign Reviewed by Tyrion Perkins Sinead O'Connor's latest album begins with Germaine Greer speaking about women making politics irrelevant by a spontaneous cooperative action.

  • Monuments

    Monuments By Karl-Erik Paasonen Where are the statues for civilians killed? I want monuments for the victims Where are the statues for the dead of Hanoi? I want monuments for the victims And where are the statues for Australians

  • More than one culprit in historical whodunit

    The Killing of History: How a Discipline is Being Murdered by Literary Critics and Social Theorists By Keith Windschuttle Macleay, 1994. 266 pp., $39.95 (hb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon Foucault, Barthes, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Derrida, Lacan

  • The evil one must die

    Disclosure Directed by Barry Levinson Written by Paul Attanasio (based on the novel by Michael Crichton) Starring Demi Moore and Michael Douglas Reviewed by Karen Fletcher Backlash films certainly get the blood boiling, but they are also

  • Love and freedom

    I don't want to talk about it (No Eso No Se Habla) Directed by Maria Luisa Bemburg Written by Maria Luisa Bemburg and Jorge Goldenburg Starring Marcello Mastroianni and Luisina Brando Opens at the Dendy, George St, Sydney and Kino Cinema in

  • Speaking for Palestine

    The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination 1969-1994 By Edward W. Said Chatto & Windus, 1994. 420 pp., $39.95 (hb) Reviewed by Sean Moysey Coincidentally while pondering the sharp and intriguing

  • A new look at how women won the vote

    Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives Edited by Caroline Daley and Melanie Nolan Pluto Press, 1994. 368 pp. Reviewed by Bernie Brian All of the articles in this collection were first presented at the "Suffrage and

  • Blood suckers

    Interview with the Vampire With Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt Reviewed by Max Lane Vampire brilliantly transports the audience into the degenerate, darkly colourful underside of 18th century New Orleans and Paris. The three main characters, the

  • A not so fearful fifty

    Fear of Fifty By Erica Jong London: Chatto & Windus, 1994. 390 pp. Reviewed by Melanie Sjoberg Pick up a copy of any of Erica Jong's novels and you will discover an intriguing world of sexual pursuits, bizarre characters and events, along

  • Hobsbawm's fourth age

    Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991 By Eric Hobsbawm Michael Joseph, 1994. 627 pp., $45 (hb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon There is a new addition to Eric Hobsbawm's superb Marxist historical trilogy (Age of Revolution, Age