Review: The Year of Magical Thinking

If criticism were simply a matter of ticking boxes, it might be safely assumed that I would hate The Year of Magical Thinking. It's a 90...

Hunger

"The difference between hunger and appetite is very important. And the harder it becomes to feed the population of the world, the more ...

Review Dance Massive: Inert, Mortal Engine

"What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! - There is nothing like dancing after all. - I consider it as one of th...

From the Land of the Blahs

Your fearless blogger made several Resolutions at the end of 2008, most of which - rather unusually - she has stuck with. One of them was to...

Review: Van Diemen's Land

I first encountered the story of Alexander Pearce around 15 years ago in Robert Hughes's indispensible history, The Fatal Shore. It'...

Fillums, old and new

Last Friday, irretrievably sealing her reputation as Frivolous Arts Wanker, Ms TN flew to Adelaide to see a movie. The idea was that I would...

Email problems

Aapt, my service provider, has been doing something mysterious to my emails over the past three months or so. I am getting too many reports ...