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  • 1 week ago | spectator.com.au | Peter Craven

    The house was awash with the Russians this week – first because someone was reading George Saunders’ A Swim in the Pond in the Rain. In this book, the author of Lincoln in the Bardo concentrates on the great Russians of the nineteenth century – Chekhov and Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol – to show what fiction can do to the imagination when it’s taken slowly.

  • 2 weeks ago | waste-management-world.com | Peter Craven

    Are Current EU C&D Waste Recycling Targets an Obstacle to Growth?

  • 2 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Peter Craven

    By the time this is published, your columnist will have seen the students of the National Theatre perform their chosen version of Antigone. The earliest of Sophocles’ Theban plays, though the climax of them in terms of subject matter, and the recapitulation of the story which begins with Oedipus Rex.

  • 3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Peter Craven

    One of the greatest documentary filmmakers who ever lived died last week at the age of 97. He is the man who made The Sorrow and the Pity (Le Chagrin et la Pitié) which is the four-and-a-half-hour account of what old-timers born before the second world war refer to as the Fall of France.

  • 1 month ago | spectator.com.au | Peter Craven

    Sometimes you’re just too clapped out to attend the most sparkling bit of theatre and so it was for your columnist the night of the opening of the great Max Gillies’ one-man show at Melbourne’s fortyfivedownstairs. It sounds however like a delight. The subterranean venue (impossible for the halt down those rickety stairs) has seen its wonders.

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