Julie Szego
Julie Szego is an author and freelance journalist.
Compassionate and commonsense therapeutic approach
George Szego brought powerful insights on the nature of desire, the trauma of migration and the long shadow of history’s worst genocide.
- by Julie Szego and Klara Szego
Latest
Author’s quest for redemption in the wake of Holocaust suffering
Mark Baker wrote the book called “the gold standard of second generation Holocaust memoirs”.
- by Julie Szego
Opinion
Motherhood
Mothers and daughters always share both tenderness and tension
I’m reaching that juncture where a woman starts to think of herself as the sum of all the compromises she’s made. Most days I seethe with a rage I can barely articulate.
- by Julie Szego
Opinion
Barry Humphries
In defence of Barry Humphries’ legacy, and the art of comedy itself
Not even Australia’s handful of cultural elders - those who prised open the windows of our stultifying mid-century suburbia to let in fresh air - are spared cancellation these days.
- by Julie Szego
Opinion
Factional politics
The Liberal Party and a 1970s brutalist car park have many things in common
Cold and dingy on the inside, The Liberal Party is a natural setting for basement deals and a space in which women tend to feel on edge.
- by Julie Szego
Opinion
Censorship
Porn, power and the other p-word in conservative America
Reading about the sacking of a Florida school principal over a picture of Michelangelo’s David, I felt that familiar, “thank God we’re not America” smugness.
- by Julie Szego
Opinion
City life
Farewell to the Nicholas Building and the creative community I found there
The Nicholas Building might be a ‘decaying museum’ but it forged an accidental community of creative Melburnians.
- by Julie Szego
Opinion
Literature
Adelaide Writers’ Week controversy is about Jews, not just Israel
Bravery implies telling uncomfortable truths. Yet if it is true, as alleged, that writers Mohammed El-Kurd and Susan Abulhawa propagate racism then by definition they are telling not truths but lies.
- by Julie Szego
Opinion
Film
Tarred with the wrong brush: Critics of Blanchett’s new film miss the point
It is the response to Tár, as much as the film itself, that’s most revealing, of our own existential crisis around power, truth and the role of art.
- by Julie Szego
Opinion
Greens
The Greens were dumped – not the other way around. And that’s their lasting shame
Lidia Thorpe’s freelance advocacy against the Voice while a senator for the minor party highlights two enduring pathologies on the political left.
- by Julie Szego
Opinion
Satire
Welcome to class, kids, here are all the ways you’re getting dudded
By the time you state schoolers are in year 9, many of you will be five years behind the kids in Posh Grammar in reading, and four years behind in maths – more than double the gap between you and them in year 3. The more you’re schooled, the relatively dumber you get!
- by Julie Szego
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