Diet of doom: it’s the new nail biting
In a 24/7 news cycle, our phones constantly detonate little depth-charges of worry. How to keep perspective?
Nikki Gemmell
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Do we talk, enough, about mateship among boys?
An early morning phone call that will never be forgotten. “Mum, I’m in hospital. I almost died. I’m about to have an operation.”
Finally, a leader to be proud of
We’ve been battered by the moral weakness of so many world leaders, but Ukraine’s president has given us the narrative we needed.
Turning the page
I’m hungry for new ways of storytelling in this screen-saturated world. How can the long-form novel compete?
Being ‘good’ never got women anywhere
An untameable new female has arisen from #MeToo’s flames. Which is why Grace Tame is so enraging to some.
Stop, and marvel
Covid, that wily and blindsiding disruptor, is forcing us to take note, afresh. To observe, more closely, what’s all around us.
Remaking yourself — would you, could you, dare to do it?
Recently I’ve read some startling books from women who’ve lived, deeply, and are finding their way to fiction later in life.
I’m embracing the delights of newly liberated flesh
Ah, womanhood, and the peculiar demands it places upon our bodies. All the maintenance, the expense; all the energy expended. Not anymore …
Women thirst for our own complex truths on screen
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s movie The Lost Daughter is a masterpiece. But judging by the reviews, it’s only women who truly get it.
A lack of attention can be devastating
In this fraught summer, with Omicron raging, it feels like the Australian people are being ghosted by our politicians.
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