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Dec 30, 2024 | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | Simon Caterson
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. BIOGRAPHYJames Fairfax: Portrait of a Collector in Eleven ObjectsAlexander Edward GillyNewSouth $49.99The very rich, wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald, are different from you and me. James Fairfax, the subject of this fascinating biography written by his nephew, was the eldest son of Sir Warwick Fairfax and therefore destined at birth to lead the family company.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Simon Caterson
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. HISTORYThe Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage DramaBen MacintyreViking, $36.99It takes me about 11 minutes to walk to the train for my commute into town.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Barry Spurr |Javier Milei |Alistair Pope |Simon Caterson
Being consulted, earlier this year, by a concerned mother, with regard to her Year 10 daughter’s progress (or lack of it) in English at school, and with the demands of the HSC beckoning in a couple of years’ time, I asked for details of the girl’s current classroom study. The first few weeks of the term, it turned out, had been devoted to “creative writing”.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Patrick Wood |Alistair Crooks |Peter SMith |Peter Smith |Simon Caterson
he key to understanding the global political situation at the […] Sep 22 2024 26 mins Unlike the renewables industry, its green rent-seekers and Chris Bowen, numbers tell the truth Sep 22 2024 4 mins Before Ian Fleming and all the other authors who have made heroes of the wrongly accused there was John Buchan's urbane Richard Hannay Sep 21 2024 12 mins The key to understanding the global political situation at the moment appears to be rooted in events which occurred in the late Sixties and...
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Peter SMith |Peter Smith |Simon Caterson |David Mason-Jones
Unlike the renewables industry, its green rent-seekers and Chris Bowen, numbers tell the truthSep 22 20244 minsBefore Ian Fleming and all the other authors who have made heroes of the wrongly accused there was John Buchan's urbane Richard HannaySep 21 202412 minsAt 75, I have achieved 'old age'.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Simon Caterson
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Simon Caterson
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. ART HISTORYParis in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of ImpressionismSebastian SmeeText, $36.99French Impressionist painting offers a vision of colour and light so vivid and pure we might imagine the artist saw nothing but the elemental beauty of the observable world. In this art, typically, every colour of the spectrum is used except black.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Simon Caterson
HISTORYMadame Brussels: The Life And Times of Melbourne's Most Notorious Woman Barbara Minchinton with Philip BentleyLa Trobe University Press, $36.99 There were several bold and canny businesswomen - "flash madams" as they were known - who during the late 19th century operated brothels on the east side of Melbourne's CBD. Only one of these women, however, subsequently had a laneway named after her. The legendary Madame Brussels echoes today also in the name of a rooftop cocktail bar.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Simon Caterson
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. HISTORYMadame Brussels: The Life And Times of Melbourne’s Most Notorious WomanBarbara Minchinton with Philip BentleyLa Trobe University Press, $36.99There were several bold and canny businesswomen – “flash madams” as they were known – who during the late 19th century operated brothels on the east side of Melbourne’s CBD.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Simon Caterson
WRITINGWrite, Cut, Rewrite: The Cutting Room Floor of Modern LiteratureDirk Van Hulle & Mark NixonBodleian Library, $79.99 "I do, I undo and I redo". The struggle and toil of the creative process outlined by visual artist Louise Bourgeois applies as much to literature as to any other art form. Some authors, notably Samuel Beckett, incorporated erasure into their finished work - Beckett's term for the practice is decomposition.
