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Slow Reveal
A book launch
Apr 22
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John McDonald
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Consigned to the Flames
# 588
Apr 18
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John McDonald
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Blow Back Ins in Broken Hill
Things move at a different pace in the country.
Apr 17
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John McDonald
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The Count of Monte Cristo
A classic is a book that never becomes outdated, capturing one generation of readers after another, although often in quite different ways.
Apr 14
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John McDonald
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Prisoner's Dilemma
# 587
Apr 11
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John McDonald
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Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature
It happened to Rembrandt, and it happened to Caspar David Friedrich.
Apr 9
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John McDonald
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Small Things Like These
Having written a surprise best-seller in The Fatal Shore, Robert Hughes wondered what to write next.
Apr 8
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John McDonald
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The Vision Thing
# 586
Apr 4
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John McDonald
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Cavafy Museum, Alexandria
At the dawn of the Common Era, the Egyptian city of Alexandria boasted the greatest library of the ancient world.
Apr 4
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John McDonald
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Hong Kong 2025: A Journal
Last week in Hong Kong, I visited young, up-and-coming gallery, PHD Group – at 11.30 at night.
Apr 4
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John McDonald
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The Return
Ralph Fiennes, who does a nice line in ‘troubled and brooding’, makes lavish use of this skill in The Return, a story drawn from one of the foundational…
Apr 1
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John McDonald
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March 2025
Spacejunk in the Garden
#585
Mar 29
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John McDonald
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