Andrea Goldsmith

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Tomb reader

Oct 24, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Andrea Goldsmith |Don Watson |Anna Krien |Jason Koutsoukis

A lifelong love for the solitude of cemeteries has the author regarding them as places full of life At home and abroad, I am a stroller of cemeteries. This is not a morbid interest, nor is it bravado in the realm of the grim reaper. As I wander a cemetery, I hardly dwell on death at all. The one I know best is the Melbourne General Cemetery. Opened in 1853, and located just a couple of kilometres from what is now the CBD, it was Australia’s first parkland cemetery.
‘… and then comes a day when something elemental erupts in a fierce, impatient cry … when, in short, prudence is defied’

May 30, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Andrea Goldsmith |Laura Tingle |Kate Manne |Katherine Wilson

The author’s dismay at the inevitable physical decline of ageing, and her rediscovery of defiance prompted by the words of Thomas Mann In my neighbourhood, there’s a woman who walks with her upper body bent at 90 degrees to her hips and legs. Her head is tilted back ever so slightly, so she can see the way ahead. She walks steadily and at a moderate pace, so her legs must be strong.
Andrea Goldsmith reviews 'Marcel Proust' by Michael Wood

Sep 24, 2023 | australianbookreview.com.au | Andrea Goldsmith

In 1981, Terence Kilmartin’s revision of C.K. Scott Moncrieff’s 1920s English translation of Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu was published. Against Kilmartin’s wishes, the new edition retained the unfortunate title of Remembrance of Things Past, but in all other respects the Kilmartin version significantly corrected and enhanced the Moncrieff translation.1 This became my Proust, and I have remained loyal to it.
Revert to type

Aug 24, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Andrea Goldsmith |Joelle Gergis |George Megalogenis |Jackson Ryan

How the pursuit of a vintage typewriter led to digitally disconnecting in ways beyond the clacking keys A little over a century ago, E.M. Forster published “The Machine Stops”, a short story that depicts human civilisation sometime in the future. I expect Forster was projecting ahead several centuries, but in some respects the world of “The Machine Stops” bears a resemblance to Western societies today.