Holiday reading/viewing
Anybody else got plans to lower the height of their reading pile over the next few weeks? If so, what are you going to be reading? And what about the telly box? or DVDs?
Living in Paul Keating’s Australia, and loving it!
Tonight I went to Paul Keating’s book tour at the Brisbane Powerhouse. There’s a real sense, as I argued recently at The Drum, that we still live in the John Howard era. But only because the evil angels of this country are continually conjured up by [...]
Tone
I really wanted to write a good review of this book, but this was not the book to do it. Abbott is a conviction politician, no matter how angry certain commenter may be when I say that. He wants power, yes, and he is ruthless in his pursuit of it. But he wants power for a reason, not just for its own sake. I just hope that the debate this book sparked gets people talking about what those reasons are.
Must read: Shakira Hussein on Norway and terror
Shakira Hussein has written the best piece I’ve seen on the response to the massacres in Norway.
Johann Hari’s interview “augmentation”
Most Larvatus Prodeo readers at some point will have come across the writings of Johann Hari, a freelance journalist who writes regularly for The Independent here in the UK. Hari has a distinctive, uncommonly direct writing voice; he is known [...]
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by Samuel L. Jackson and a bedtime story. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Gay Syrian activist girl revealed as married American man
Thomas MacMaster endangered the safety of real Syrian activitists who were agitating for her release. His fictions now cast doubt on the writings of a whole range of other Middle Eastern activist bloggers writing in English.
Quick link: Wilson on Lindsay Tanner’s Sideshow
I read Lindsay Tanner’s Sideshow on the weekend. I had it in mind to write a review, but Jason Wilson’s done such an excellent job, there’s no need. Go read.
Backstory and the Ties That Bind: Guest post by Tansy Rayner Roberts
Tansy Rayner Roberts is the author of some of the best stories I’ve read in the last few years. Siren Beat won the “Washington Association Small Press Short Fiction Award” and is going to become a novel one day, and [...]
The demise of Borders
The Australian Borders-branded bookstores, and the American book chain of the same name, are run by two separate companies. But both have ended up in severe financial trouble. Many Borders outlets in the United States have already closed, and it’s [...]
The strange origins of MI5
It’s quite surprising the things you learn when you have the time to do some serious reading. I’m currently making my way through Defence of the Realm: The Official History of MI5. While I’m not expecting much of the book’s [...]
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