Descarte’s Error
Descartes’ Error I can’t remember why, back in 1995, I bought a copy of Antonio Damasio’s book, Descartes’ Error. Was it the cover, with [...]
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11, 2024
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11, 2024
Pooh
Pooh This is an ‘unpublished book review’ from late 1964?? It would have been something to submit it to the Carleton Miscellany that year, [...]
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11, 2024
The Culture of the New Capitalism
The Culture of the New Capitalism It is often hard to explain – to oneself and to others – why you are drawn to [...]
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09, 2024
Rage On
Rage On Recently, my eldest daughter sent me a link to a talk given at the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival on 17 [...]
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08, 2024
Ordinary Vices
Ordinary Vices I was born just before the first of the Baby Boomers generation. They emerged when the Second World War was over, Europe [...]
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08, 2024
The Middle Ground
The Middle Ground Over the past 150 years, we have seen dramatic changes in countries and their governments. As the time of the divine [...]
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07, 2024
The Railway Children
The Railway Children Remembering children’s books is a serendipitous exercise. In my case, some are established favourites, and so Pooh, Rat and Mole and [...]
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06, 2024
The White Album
The White Album No, this isn’t about the Beatles 1968 album The Beatles, which also has the parenthetic subtitle White Album. That collection was [...]
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05, 2024
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold One of my current ‘favourite’ authors is Mick Herron. I only started reading his novels three [...]
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05, 2024
Colour Blind
Colour Blind Having a father who was a senior school physics teacher could have ensured all sorts of benefits. He could have helped me [...]
