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In her 1959 collection of frontline dispatches, Faces of War, Martha Gellhorn describes how she came to turn her attention to the civilian dramas of modern warfare, the rendering of which, in carefully observed, highly empathetic prose, came to characterise
This is a novel about the sole surviving speaker of an ancient Siberian language who is discovered by a Russian expert on Samoyedic dialects who makes the fatal mistake of telling a Helsinki-based professor of Finno-Ugric languages about it. To
In the lead-up to the March 4 Russian presidential election, which Vladimir Putin won in a landslide amid allegations of fraud, Foreign Policy magazine published an article by Thomas de Waal titled ‘How Gogol Explains the Post-Soviet World’. “How about
“At the first bullfight I ever went to,” Hemingway writes at the beginning of his 1932 nonfiction work Death in the Afternoon, “I expected to be horrified and perhaps sickened by what I had been told would happen to the
Robert McKee is in Australia this month, on the road with his always well-attended seminar series. He will no doubt be peddling his usual brand of snake oil, passing down from on high the so-called principles of the well-written screenplay. Of course, to call these principles snake oil might perhaps be Some patients on Lipitor
Creative writing courses—those ostensible hothouses of creative ferment whose methods, nay, whose very existence has been so hotly debated in these pages and elsewhere—often appear to those of us on the outside as the breeding ground for several subspecies of
The story of Conaci, aged seven, and Dirimera, aged ten, who were spirited away to Europe by a Benedictine missionary, Rosendo Salvado, in the mid-nineteenth century to be trained as Australia’s first indigenous monks, is arguably the first, forgotten chapter
There exist a number of litmus tests in the field of criticism and theory; a roll call of films and filmmakers who, divisive by nature, like lines in the sand, demand that one take stock and take sides. For the