Although we may be aware of the increasing cultural presence of images, less apparent are the changes in how we might think about them. In the new media landscape, images are no longer just representations or interpretations ...

The contrast between the two Leipzigs (during and after the Cold War) expresses the tension that is brilliantly exploited at many levels in Nicholas Shakespeare’s new novel, a tender work that explores brutality. It deals ...

This article is a review of "The Man Who Died Twice: The Life and Adventures of Morrison of Peking" by Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin. George Ernest 'Chinese' Morrison (1862-192) was a photojournalist and well-known ...

In "Across the Magic Line: Growing up in Fiji", Patricia Page comes full circle, returning with her sister Gay after an absence of fifty years to the enchanted islands of their childhood, reliving their memories and examining ...

This article is a review of Young Adult Non-Fiction, including: Robyn Annear, "Fly a Rebel Flag: The Battle at Eureka"; Dyan Blacklock illus. David Kennett, "The Roman Army"; Jacqui Grantford, "Shoes News"; and Karl ...

This novel has a controlled opening, a reasonable tone. But soon control will not avail and the irrational will hold sway, though Scott will maintain a firm control over his plot, with developments and reversals proceeding ...

Australian expatriate artist Bessie Davidson was a woman who ripened with age. After decades of living in Paris and dressing somewhat dowdily ‘à l’anglaise’, she gained confidence with the liberation of France towards the ...

This book’s strengths and weaknesses are on a big scale, and that alone makes Finlayson a writer worth watching. The portrait of the Territory — an utterly different universe from the Australia most of us know — is ...

Like any good biography, "Killing Juanita" is the story of its time as well as of the main protagonist. The book provides a compelling picture of what inner-city Sydney was like around the Cross and Woolloomooloo. The cops ...

"Very Big Journey" is Hilda Jarman Muir’s story. Nevertheless, a good deal of the book’s joy lies in the author’s hearty self-assertion, and how this seems to have been enabled by a broader indigenous community.