The Arts
Manus messenger: podcasting blurred memories from an island prison
Crikey October 20, 2017 3 Comments
Aziz has been telling me about his life and reporting his experiences in the detention centre. From these fragments, we’ve compiled a podcast, The Messenger, writes freelance journalist Michael Green.
Tony Birch says Mango poem controversy exposes student entitlement
Bhakthi Puvanenthiran October 18, 2017 13 Comments
In the aftermath of HSC students' vilification of poet Ellen van Neerven, we speak to author and academic Tony Birch about education, poetry, and online abuse.
Rundle: Weinstein’s ruin epitomises how we do politics now
Guy Rundle October 13, 2017 23 Comments
Paradoxically, the one industry that won't be reformed is Hollywood.
Keane: the doomed quest for meaning in Twin Peaks
Bernard Keane October 13, 2017 4 Comments
If there's meaning in Twin Peaks: The Return, it lies in the meaninglessness of existence, and how we can best cope with it.
Razer: the three kinds of therapy we self-apply to make sense of this world
Helen Razer October 12, 2017 29 Comments
The first two are essentially quick-fix drugs or peppy self-help. Only the third has the power to heal and instruct over the long term.
Political dark horse David Leyonhjelm launches his book for freedom-lovers
Margot Saville October 11, 2017 34 Comments
David Leyonhjelm may have accidentally been elected, but that doesn't mean he can't use his platform to talk about cats (and other notes from the launch of Freedom's Salesman)
Bonsai of the Vanities: sitting in stunned silence at Mark Latham’s book launch
Margot Saville October 5, 2017 70 Comments
It was a great audience: fewer than 100 people sandwiched into a small room at Sydney’s Intercontinental Hotel, overwhelmingly middle-aged, male and white.
Breakdown: how did so many outlets bungle news of Tom Petty’s ‘death’?
Emily Watkins October 3, 2017 8 Comments
News outlets were free fallin' into fake news cycles when CBS reported Tom Petty's death.
‘Rage, rage and the dying of the right’, a poem by Guy Rundle
Guy Rundle September 25, 2017 12 Comments
Crikey endorses neither political violence nor tercets.
Razer: Clinton’s book proves she is a compassionate, deeply delusional person
Helen Razer September 14, 2017 17 Comments
Hillary Clinton is loving and honest. But she is also a profoundly shortsighted elitist living in a fantasy world.