Much of my time over the last two or three months has been spent in reading, considering, and (privately) debating the large pile of material submitted for the annual...
Read MoreChris Berg has written a cogent and comprehensive piece about the ban in Australia on the film I Want Your Love. It seems that the ban is motivated by a claim that a...
Read MoreThe Australian film censors have banned a movie entitled I Want Your Love, which apparently involves 36 hours in the life of a young gay man in the process of...
Read MoreHere in Australia there are anti-discrimination laws that protect breastfeeding mothers from refusal of service and the like, and these are laws that I am perfectly...
Read MoreOver at Brain Pickings is a nice post about one of my favourite authors, Kurt Vonnegut. Specifically, it is about Vonnegut’s reflections on the shapes of stories...
Read MoreOne my ambitions – perhaps to be saved for a far-off time – is to write a book about fictional villains. What roles do they play in myth, literary...
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