Dumbo Feather Magazine

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Dumbo Feather Issue 58 - Healing the land - features these incredible people:   Charles Massy Reads the Landscape Wendell Berry Knows Our Limits Chido Govera Cultivates Hope Bruce Pascoe Rewrites History Katherine Wilkinson Sees Solutions   Also featuring Pioneering Farms: Mossy Wil low Farm Milkwood Sole Food Street Farms Odonata   ...Show more

White Horses - Issue 22 by Aqualuna

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Monthly Magazine

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The Monthly is one of Australia’s boldest voices, providing enlightening commentary and vigorous, at times controversial, debate on the issues that affect the nation. Home to our finest thinkers, journalists and critics, including David Marr, Helen Garner, Don Watson and Anna Goldsw orthy, the magazine offers a mix of investigative reportage, critical essays and thoughtful reviews.   The Monthly is published in multiple formats: print magazine, iPad, iPhone and Android apps, ebook and online. It was named winner of the General Interest category at the 2015 Australian Magazine Awards.   An independent voice in Australian media, the Monthly is essential reading for anyone who is seeking deep engagement with national politics, society and culture. ...Show more

Limelight August 2019 by Limelight

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Cover story-Wonder Women- The Australian Ballet performs Sylvia in a new production by Stanton Welch for which the lead ballerinas are learning to sword-fight. Centring on a fierce nymph who falls for a mortal man, the playful, mythological ballet features a gorgeous score by Leo Delibes, which Tchaikov sky praised over his own Swan Lake. Feature-Asher Fisch first conducted the West Australian Symphony Orchestra 20 years ago. This month in Perth he conducts a Gala Event starring German soprano Gun-Brit Barkmin and takes to the piano for the Schumann Piano Concerto. We talk to him about music and life. Articles-Mark Wigglesworth discusses Shostakovich's dynamic Symphony No 4, which he conducts with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and Eivind Aadland, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra's Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Designate, explores Sibelius's sublime Fifth Symphony. Interviews- Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek on starring with Jonas Kaufmann in Opera Australia's concert version of Andrea Chenier set during the French Revolution; Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith on making her directorial debut with her latest, whip-smart comedy L'Appartement for Queensland Theatre. Reviews-Jayson Gillham's performance of Beethoven's Piano Concertos with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; the Australian Chamber Orchestra's Szymanowski to Sufjan Stevens concert; Opera Australia's Anna Bolena starring Ermonela Jaho, Wake in Fright at Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre. What's on- live performance and radio highlights for August 2019. ...Show more

Island Magazine #154 by Vern Field (Editor)

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Limelight July 2019 by Limelight

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Cover story- Crowning Glory- We explore Donizetti's three operas about the Tudor Queens, and interview Davide Livermore who is directing the trilogy for Opera Australia, beginning this month with Anna Bolena. Albanian star soprano Ermonela Jaho also discusses making her debut in the challenging title ro le. Article- An in-depth look at Taras Bulba, Janacek's rhapsody for orchestra about love, war and death, based on Nikolai Gogol's novel. Alexander Briger, a noted Janacek specialist, discusses the famous piece, as he prepares to conduct it with the Australian World Orchestra. Guest feature- As Nicholas Carter prepares to leave his role as Principal Conductor of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, he looks back on his tenure, and shares his views on classical music today, as well as his own plans for the future. Preview- Irene Sankoff and David Hein share the back story to their musical Come From Away, set in Gander, Newfoundland where 38 planes bound for New York were redirected in the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, leading to extraordinary stories of kindness and humanity. Reviews- Britain's Doric String Quartet plays Haydn, Schubert, Beethoven and a world premiere by Brett Dean on a Musica Viva tour, the Australian Haydn Ensemble offers a feast of 18th century French chamber music, Sergei Dogadin performs Glazunov's Violin Concerto for West Australian Symphony Orchestra, while Neil Armfield directs Andrew Bovell's moving play Things I Know to be True for Belvoir. What's on- live performance and radio highlights for July 2019. ...Show more

Junkies

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Meanjin Quarterly Vol 78 No 1

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In the issue's cover essay, 'Quest and Queerness- Role-Playing Identity', Adolfo Aranjuez writes on sexuality, gender and the trouble with pinning down a satisfactory, and true, sense of self. He settles on queer. 'Queer is fallible but it embodies the very illusory stability that it challenges. Non-bin ary, mongrel Asian, dual citizen, identity double bind-for me queer is coming home.' Plus, in other non-fiction- Katharine Murphy, Henry Reynolds, Ruby Hamad, Tony Birch, Greg Melleuish, Omar Sakr and more. There's memoir from- Shu-Ling Chua, Na'ama Carlin, Joan Fleming, Shane Maloney and Indigo Perry. New fiction from- Nicholas Jose, Jennifer Mills, Lola Button, and Rafeif Ismail. And poetry from- Judith Beveridge, Simeon Kronenberg, Stephen Edgar, Pam Brown,Ashley Haywood, Sarah Day, Melinda Smith, David McCooey, and Madeleine Dale. Plus- Shaun Micallef gets lost in renovation. ...Show more

Quarterly Essay 72: Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age by Sebastian Smee

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What is the inner life? And is it vanishing in the digital age? Throughout history, artists and philosophers have cultivated the deep self, and seen value in solitude and reflection. But today, through social media, wall-to-wall marketing, reality television and the agitation of modern life, everythin g feels illuminated, made transparent. We feel bereft without our phones and their cameras and the feeling of instant connectivity. It gets hard to pick up a book, harder still to stay with it. In this eloquent and profound essay, renowned critic Sebastian Smee brings to the surface the idea of inner life - the awareness one may feel in front of a great painting or while listening to extraordinary music by a window at dusk or in a forest at night. No nostalgic lament, this essay evokes what is valuable and worth cultivating - a connection to our true selves, and a feeling of agency in the mystery of our own lives. At the same time, such contemplation puts us in an intensely charged relationship with things, people or works of art that are outside us. If we lose this power, Smee asks, what do we lose of ourselves? ...Show more

Quarterly Essay 74: Prosperity Gospel: How Scott Morrison Won and Bill Shorten Lost (The 2019 Election) by Erik Jensen

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What went wrong for Labor and how did Scott Morrison achieve his remarkable victory? In this dazzling report from the campaign trail, Erik Jensen homes in on the insecurities that drive Bill Shorten and the certainties that helped Scott Morrison win. He considers how each man reflects, challenges and co mforts the national character. Who are Morrison’s “quiet Australians”? What did Shorten Labor fail to see? And will fear always trump hope in politics? The Prosperity Gospel sheds new light on the politics of a divided nation. “Arthur Sinodinos says the election is a crapshoot. He’s in a car park in Nowra, waiting for Morrison. ‘The momentum has been with us at different times, especially in Queensland,’ he says. ‘Central Queensland, even the outer suburbs of Brisbane. It’s a narrow pathway to victory, with the odds going the other way. But it ain’t over until it’s over.’ Despite everything, Arthur Sinodinos has an honest face. He does not look confident.” ...Show more