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  Reviews • by Sonia Nair • 1 comment

  The Women’s Prize review: Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver

  Formerly known as the Orange Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction is awarded annually and ‘celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world’. We delve into the third of the six shortlisted novels – Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour. Kingsolver is no stranger to … Read more »

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  Column: Books and Writing • by Pepi Ronalds

  On the road with Caravan of Comics

  ‘Australian comics have been around for decades. But it has been in waves and visibility has always been a problem. I’ve been in it long enough to see several waves come and go,’ says Bruce Mutard, who has been making comics in Melbourne for over 20 years. … Read more »

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  Column: Film and TV • by Anthony Morris • 1 comment

  Hate the player, not the game: Actors compete in the Kickstarter popularity contest

  The internet is a place where people feel things deeply. Sometimes, those feelings are about Zach Braff. During the four days it took the Scrubs star and writer/director of Garden State to raise US$2 million dollars on Kickstarter to fund his next movie, numerous commentators felt it … Read more »

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  Column: Art / Music / Theatre • by Dion Kagan

  Godfather of Carnage: Dance of Death at Malthouse Theatre

  The underside of the marriage plot is the marriage-as-blood-sport plot. In 1900 the so-heralded ‘father of modern Swiss literature’, August Strindberg, wrote a theatrical template for the marriage-turned-sour drama called The Dance with Death. In it, an ailing artillery captain and military writer, Edgar, faces off with … Read more »

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  Podcast • by Erin Dewar and Fleur Saxton

  Podcast: Little Pearlers Ep. 1

    Grown-ups can learn a lot from children. When it comes to the big questions in life, children have a natural ability to wonder. Join Erin and Fleur as they explore time, love, health and careers through the eyes of the Little Pearlers. Music compliments of Kevin MacLeod. Executive … Read more »

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