Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. How are we supposed to feel after a film like The Reader? What do the film-makers and the writer, ...

Inga Clendinnen (1934–2016) was an eloquent teacher of history and a brilliant scholar who did not begin to talk until she was three and did not learn to read until she was eight. As a child she ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. At first glance, Inga Clendinnen’s career as a historian is disorientatingly diverse. Having ...

On the page she was a sensuous stylist who never failed to chase down an idea. She understood the limits of history and the power of reading. She was a superb reader. She had learned that life was a ...

A book casts a fresh eye on factors in the destruction of Aboriginal society, writes Robert Manne. British Australia has always had problem with its foundation. For a considerable time it wrestled ...

I first came across James Boyce five years ago, when he wrote the lead essay in a collection called Whitewash, intended to argue against the ruthlessly revisionist ‘frontier history’ of Keith ...

A year later, she found herself in intensive care with septicaemia and liver failure, “freely hallucinating”. Normally fit and agile, she had to be levered in and out of chairs; endowed with a fierce ...