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 ...

Inga Clendinnen was one of Australia's most distinguished historians and she was also a writer with a virtuoso gift for dramatising ideas. But then Inga Clendinnen was the rarest kind of figure in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...