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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
At 75, I have achieved 'old age'. I welcome it and am glad about it and, with some reservations, intend to keep on growing older
Sep 21 2024
10 mins
A Sydney-based academic and columnist for the Nine rags sets out to explain the US to Australians. It's not a pretty picture
Sep 20 2024
8 mins
Christmas 2011: Patrick McCauley
During 2011 I have enjoyed reading the following books with regard to poetry:
New Seeds of Contemplation – Thomas Merton
Carnets (Camus’ Diary and working notebooks) 1935-1942 – Albert Camus
The Art of the Sonnet – Stephen Burt and David Mikics
The Poetics of Space – Gaston Bachelard
The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus – Rainer Maria Rilke
All Travellers We (Poems for Shelton Lea) – Eaglemont Press (Melb)
I have also enjoyed reading:
Once upon a time in Papunya – Vivien Johnson
After America – Mark Steyn
The original copy of The Immigration Restriction Bill 1901– to compare it to the creative narrative that has emerged as ‘The White Australia Policy’ as depicted in the SBS Series Immigration Nation.
During the summer break:
I am looking forward to reading Demonic – Ann Coulter.
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
