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“A Ramble Through the Mind of An Adolescent” (Part 1)
On Frank Moorhouse’s Juvenilia
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Kill All Rebels
On Angela Nagle and Albert Camus
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The Banality of Elon Musk
Or, the world we get when we reward thoughtlessness
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What I’m Re-Reading, No.1
On Arendt, Céline, Juvenilia Studies
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In Praise of Pessimism
Or, reading Joshua Foa Dienstag to get into the Christmas spirit
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On belatedly learning the value of first editions
The 50th Anniversary of Frank Moorhouse’s The Electrical Experience
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Reading Aurelian Craiutu’s “Why Not Moderation?” in a moment of uncertain polarisation and partisanship
Or, ‘Political labels be damn’
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