Financial Times reporter Sarah O’Connor confesses to having once been a techno-optimist, confident in technology’s power to automate away dangerous, dirty and boring work. Her new book, We Are Not Machines, superbly explains how she came to think otherwise. O’Connor adopts a “show, don’t tell” approach to debunking some of
She was a novelist and journalist, a member of the Algonquin Roundtable, a pal of Hemingway’s, and for half a century the New Yorker’s Paris correspondent. In the latter guise, she moulded the magazine’s voice and outlook, helped establish its mix of “essay journalism,” and paved the way for the
The closing submissions of counsel assisting any judicial inquiry or royal commission often give a clue to the eventual findings, and so it has been with the NSW Supreme Court’s inquiry into the notorious Croatian Six case, which gripped Sydney more than forty-five years ago. Six Croatian-born men were jailed
It probably doesn’t happen very often that two tonally perfect novels (or novellas in this case) become adapted into two tonally perfect films. My claim is that this is the case with Irish author Claire Keegan’s two slim volumes, Foster (published in 2010, 88 pages) and Small Things Like These
When the International Booker Prize committee awarded this year’s prize to Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue it continued a laudable tradition of diversity. In the eleven years since its relaunch in 2016, the prize has gone to books translated from eleven different languages. Taiwan Travelogue, a Chinese-language novel brought to the
The partnership of Alfred Hitchcock and that most Hitchcockian of composers, Bernard Herrmann, is notable for so many things that it’s easy to miss how they worked together to manipulate our sympathies. Psycho (1960) is a good example. In Phoenix, Arizona, we meet Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) during a lunchtime
“Throughout the decade my mother had spent in and out of custody for a suite of dishonesty offences, she had maintained her innocence. It was a cliché to which I was oblivious. Even once I entered law school, I had still to be disabused of my belief in her. As
Did it all begin with the “carbon tax”: the Gillard government’s emissions trading scheme announced in 2011? It was more of a “tax” than Kevin Rudd’s 2009–10 carbon pollution reduction scheme only because its initial fixed-price period was three years instead of one. But the term sure stuck. Until 2011,
The noisy, all-around-us, ceaselessly moving media environment we inhabit today prevents us from remembering how things once were. It would be easy, for example, to think that no one has shot themselves in the foot as deftly as Donald Trump did when he launched his war on Iran in February.
Karl Stefanovic loves being the centre of attention. Last week he succeeded in getting everyone talking about his podcast, The Karl Stefanovic Show, by publishing a chummy interview with far-right Islamophobe and convicted criminal Tommy Robinson. Then the former Today host managed to get himself sacked from his day job
Karl Stefanovic loves being the centre of attention. Last week he succeeded in getting everyone talking about his podcast, The Karl Stefanovic Show, by publishing a chummy interview with far-right Islamophobe and convicted criminal Tommy Robinson. Then the former Today host managed to get himself sacked from his day job
Australia’s words about a global system of “fracture, rivalry and disorder” are description, not prediction. The international order sags, shifts and splinters. Who gives the orders? Who follows orders? What is the nature of the order, ranging from trade to wars? Start with a dose of optimism. Much of the
Financial Times reporter Sarah O’Connor confesses to having once been a techno-optimist, confident in technology’s power to automate away dangerous, dirty and boring work. Her new book, We Are Not Machines, superbly explains how she came to think otherwise. O’Connor adopts a “show, don’t tell” approach to debunking some of
She was a novelist and journalist, a member of the Algonquin Roundtable, a pal of Hemingway’s, and for half a century the New Yorker’s Paris correspondent. In the latter guise, she moulded the magazine’s voice and outlook, helped establish its mix of “essay journalism,” and paved the way for the
The closing submissions of counsel assisting any judicial inquiry or royal commission often give a clue to the eventual findings, and so it has been with the NSW Supreme Court’s inquiry into the notorious Croatian Six case, which gripped Sydney more than forty-five years ago. Six Croatian-born men were jailed
It probably doesn’t happen very often that two tonally perfect novels (or novellas in this case) become adapted into two tonally perfect films. My claim is that this is the case with Irish author Claire Keegan’s two slim volumes, Foster (published in 2010, 88 pages) and Small Things Like These
When the International Booker Prize committee awarded this year’s prize to Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue it continued a laudable tradition of diversity. In the eleven years since its relaunch in 2016, the prize has gone to books translated from eleven different languages. Taiwan Travelogue, a Chinese-language novel brought to the
The partnership of Alfred Hitchcock and that most Hitchcockian of composers, Bernard Herrmann, is notable for so many things that it’s easy to miss how they worked together to manipulate our sympathies. Psycho (1960) is a good example. In Phoenix, Arizona, we meet Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) during a lunchtime
“Throughout the decade my mother had spent in and out of custody for a suite of dishonesty offences, she had maintained her innocence. It was a cliché to which I was oblivious. Even once I entered law school, I had still to be disabused of my belief in her. As
Did it all begin with the “carbon tax”: the Gillard government’s emissions trading scheme announced in 2011? It was more of a “tax” than Kevin Rudd’s 2009–10 carbon pollution reduction scheme only because its initial fixed-price period was three years instead of one. But the term sure stuck. Until 2011,
The noisy, all-around-us, ceaselessly moving media environment we inhabit today prevents us from remembering how things once were. It would be easy, for example, to think that no one has shot themselves in the foot as deftly as Donald Trump did when he launched his war on Iran in February.
Karl Stefanovic loves being the centre of attention. Last week he succeeded in getting everyone talking about his podcast, The Karl Stefanovic Show, by publishing a chummy interview with far-right Islamophobe and convicted criminal Tommy Robinson. Then the former Today host managed to get himself sacked from his day job
Karl Stefanovic loves being the centre of attention. Last week he succeeded in getting everyone talking about his podcast, The Karl Stefanovic Show, by publishing a chummy interview with far-right Islamophobe and convicted criminal Tommy Robinson. Then the former Today host managed to get himself sacked from his day job
Australia’s words about a global system of “fracture, rivalry and disorder” are description, not prediction. The international order sags, shifts and splinters. Who gives the orders? Who follows orders? What is the nature of the order, ranging from trade to wars? Start with a dose of optimism. Much of the
