The Godfather: Peter Corris on Anna Karenina
I first read Anna Karenina in 1960. It was a set text in English I at the University of Melbourne. Like the swot I was, I read as many of the set texts as I could...
Read MoreI first read Anna Karenina in 1960. It was a set text in English I at the University of Melbourne. Like the swot I was, I read as many of the set texts as I could...
Read MoreHands up those who mute the television when the advertisements come on. Hands up those who record programs rather than watch them at the scheduled time so as to be able...
Read MoreI met Peter FitzSimons at a television studio in Wollongong. He was promoting his biography of Les Darcy and I was spruiking whatever Cliff Hardy had appeared that...
Read MoreCertain sports have songs about them. Here’s a list of some that occur to me, starting, of course, with the greatest football game of all: Australian Rules Football:...
Read MoreI’m surprised to find myself writing about Ken Follett’s 1000-page-plus The Pillars of the Earth (1989), because it’s a very bad book. But some points are worth making....
Read MoreI will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree … ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ by WB Yeats It started a while back when I listened,...
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