Peter Goldsworthy

Sep 29, 2024 | quadrant.org.au | Peter Goldsworthy |Geoff Page |Joe Dolce |Michael Connor

The Cancer Finishing School is essentially 'serious', also unfailingly witty and anecdotalSep 29 20247 minsWomen today want continual change. They will have colour and […]Sep 29 202412 minsMy father comes back to us again, but we are not the same as before.

Jul 23, 2024 | australianbookreview.com.au | Peter Goldsworthy |Arts Highlights

There might be a million stories in the naked city, but the early childhood of Stanley Kubrick was one of the more typical: born in 1928, in the Bronx, to upwardly mobile, artistically sophisticated Jewish parents, one generation out of the Pale. ‘I’m not Jewish but my parents were,’ he liked to joke. A small, shy, nerdy, baby-faced misfit, he ‘preferred the street to school’ and therefore didn’t go much.

Mar 6, 2024 | smh.com.au | Peter Goldsworthy

I look but don't believe him for a moment. Whoever heard of myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells, being diagnosed by looking at pictures of bone marrow - at least without a microscope, after a biopsy? "Admit it, Shaun. I put the notion into your head, right?"Wrong. But if he isn't joking, some kind of cosmic trickster clearly is.