Archive - Public Things Newsletter

March 2025

The Banality of Elon Musk

Or, the world we get when we reward thoughtlessness

Mar 3 •

January 2025

What I’m Re-Reading, No.1

On Arendt, Céline, Juvenilia Studies

Jan 15 •

December 2024

In Praise of Pessimism

Or, reading Joshua Foa Dienstag to get into the Christmas spirit

Dec 10, 2024 •

On belatedly learning the value of first editions

The 50th Anniversary of Frank Moorhouse’s The Electrical Experience

Dec 1, 2024 •

November 2024

Reading Aurelian Craiutu’s “Why Not Moderation?” in a moment of uncertain polarisation and partisanship

Or, ‘Political labels be damn’

Nov 5, 2024 •

October 2024

Notes on the question of Australia’s Poet Laureate

Or, the first concern of a cultural diplomat

Oct 29, 2024 •

August 2024

'Being shown the instruments of torture'

Or, the art and craft of biography

Aug 22, 2024 •

July 2024

It Speaks: Biographers in Conversation

A Conversation on Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths

Jul 3, 2024 •

June 2024

Notes on Commensality

Or, why we should sit together more around a kitchen table

Jun 14, 2024 •

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