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Articles

Response to a tragic fire showed me our nation's true character

Nov 7, 2024 | buckscountyherald.com | Susan Johnson

An incessant beeping woke me early Sunday morning. After the sleepy confusion dissipated, I was jolted awake by the smoke alarm. "Malfunction," I thought sleepily. Rousing my husband from his deep sleep, we opened our bedroom door. Seeing a light from the bathroom, I mistakenly thought someone had left the light on. My ears and nose sensed a different story. A roaring noise and acrid smell told me as I ran down the hall that this was a real fire.
Uniforms

Nov 1, 2024 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Susan Johnson

Anna couldn’t say what it was like being one of two sisters who were famous for a time as the most beautiful girls anyone had seen. It was like expecting a mountain to tell you of its mountain-ness or a tree of its treeness. It just was, their beauty, a fact that permeated the air, real, necessary, enveloping. Anna was the taller, square-shouldered, with a face fresh as morning, and Stella was more designed, her bones finer as if sculpted.
Wall of fame

Sep 30, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Susan Johnson |Tim Winton |Cate Kennedy |Daniel James

Vernon Ah Kee’s 100-square-metre bookstore mural celebrates Queensland authors, poets and artists The world is so vast, history so long and the vanished so countless, a person might quail to consider the living. But an artist, a visual artist intent on including himself in the practice of recording the history of the human story, might narrow his focus so that the universal becomes a few living names symbolising the many, and marks upon a surface become strikes against the infinite.
October 2024

Sep 26, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Cate Kennedy |Daniel James |Mandy Sayer |Susan Johnson

Essays The Nation Reviewed Vox Arts & Letters Noted Life sentences Essays The Nation Reviewed Vox Arts & Letters Noted Cartoon Essays Culture On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2024 Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, taking in theatre, visual art, books, dance, festivals and a YouTube miniaturist Books Writer’s loch ‘Stone Yard Devotional’ author Charlotte Wood decompresses on the west coast of Scotland ahead of the Booker Prize announcement The Nation Reviewed...
ELCIC Lutheranism in the International Arena

Jul 23, 2024 | paperity.org | Susan Johnson

Consensus, Jul 2024 By Susan C. Johnson, Published on 07/25/24 This is a preview of a remote PDF: https://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2592&context=consensus Susan C. Johnson. , Consensus, 2024, pp. 11, Volume 45, Issue 2,
Other people’s dogs

Jun 28, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Susan Johnson |Margaret Simons |Jonathan Green |Anthony Ham

In letting others into our homes and our pets’ lives, international dog-sitting services are a two-way exercise of trust When I was a teenager there was a popular party trick favoured by teachers in high-school religious education classes that aimed to demonstrate trust in real time. Students were instructed to stand shoulder to shoulder in a tight circle and one unlucky soul was chosen to stand in the centre, close her eyes and fall backwards as if in a faint.
Going Viral: Insurance company pulls plug on expensive solar project

Mar 10, 2024 | tj.news | Susan Johnson

Advertisement 1 • • Article contentHere are the top 10 most popular stories online last week with TJ.news readers. See if you have read them all. Advertisement 2Don't have an account? Create AccountArticle contentThe most well-viewed story of the last week, with 3,725 views, was Insurance company pulls plug on expensive solar project, followed by N.B. lawyer in trouble over Facebook post, statements with 3,549 views.
An imagined life: David Malouf

Feb 22, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Susan Johnson |Martin McKenzie-Murray |Jonathan Green |Anna Krien

Celebrating the literary great’s 90th birthday with a visit to his incongruous home of Surfers Paradise to discuss a life in letters If a man can be said to be made by his place – and a place starts with the sounds, smells and colours known by the body, and extends to the family and state known by the heart and mind – then Queensland is David Malouf’s maker. But how to reconcile this writer with this place?
Do we still need to read Susan Sontag writing about women?

Jun 20, 2023 | brisbanetimes.com.au | Susan Johnson

By Susan Johnson June 21, 2023 — 7.00amESSAYSOn WomenSusan Sontag; ed., David RieffHamish Hamilton, $35The literary critic du jour, Merve Emre, ex Harvard and Yale and now professor of creative writing and criticism at Wesleyan University, makes some big claims in her introduction to this new collection of Susan Sontag essays.
Do we still need to read Susan Sontag writing about women?

Jun 20, 2023 | smh.com.au | Susan Johnson

ESSAYSOn Women Susan Sontag; ed., David RieffHamish Hamilton, $35 The literary critic du jour, Merve Emre, ex Harvard and Yale and now professor of creative writing and criticism at Wesleyan University, makes some big claims in her introduction to this new collection of Susan Sontag essays.