http://theember.com.au Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:13:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en - David Free Blokes: The Bad Boys of British Literature By David Castronovo Continuum, 2009. David Castronovo’s Blokes is a study of four more-or-less blokey post-war British (indeed English) writers: the poet Philip Larkin, the novelist Kingsley Amis, the playwright John Osborne, and the critic Kenneth Tynan. Castronovo is an American academic, and in ... http://theember.com.au/?p=1201 - Nick Terrell Anthony Lister - Macmillan Mini-Art Series No. 13 Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer Macmillan. $Au 35.00. Ben Frost – Lost in the Supermarket Boutwell Draper Gallery Franck Gohier – Produkt Ray Hughes Gallery Ladies and gentlemen, Anthony Lister: “Mankind is a product of its own reflection being fed to the masses through television. All of ... http://theember.com.au/?p=1170 V&A Pattern - Limited Edition Box Set A&C Black. $Au 79.99. Containing: Owen Jones / Novelty Patterns / Kimono / Garden Florals On the third floor of the Victoria and Albert Museum, along from the sacred silver and the wall tapestries, there are five interconnected rooms housing row after row of head high ... http://theember.com.au/?p=1157 - Nick Terrell The Good Soldiers by David Finkel Scribe. 287 pages. $Au 35.00. In the final sequence of HBO’s Iraq War mini-series, Generation Kill, the troops from Bravo 21 gather around a laptop. Their deployment has come to an end and the mood is celebratory. One of their number has just finished ... http://theember.com.au/?p=1142 - Elizabeth Prater Belgian Artist Michaël Borremans insists that his figurative works and portraits do not depict individuals. He aspires to the archetypal, the generic and the anonymous. Identity is a retrograde myth, social function and structural determination are the defining human conditions. So it goes. But Borremans’ figures invite a ... http://theember.com.au/?p=1042 - Nick Terrell Tom Wright, Associate Director of the Sydney Theatre Company, is drawn to classical tragedy “because it is difficult” and “because it is bigger than us.” Classical tragedy asks difficult questions of our quotidian and pragmatic ideas of order, justice and accountability. Ideally, any new adaptation of the Oresteia ... http://theember.com.au/?p=1081 - Nick Terrell The Ask by Sam Lipsyte Picador. 296 pages. $Au 29.99 “Throughout my whole life I was constantly finding my place taken, perhaps because I did not look for my place where I should have done.” Turgenev - 'The Diary of a Superfluous Man' Who, in this age of late, post or ... http://theember.com.au/?p=1069 - Nick Terrell Let the Dead Lie by Malla Nunn Pan Macmillan Australia. 392 pages. $Au 32.99 By the end of Malla Nunn’s first novel, A Beautiful Place to Die, Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper “had maligned the most powerful law-enforcement body in South Africa by delivering a letter to the mother of a ... http://theember.com.au/?p=1062 - Elizabeth Prater Stooge Pile by Seth Scriver A Petits Livres from Drawn & Quarterly So we take a touch of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s cat, we slip in a semi-consciousness of Big Daddy Roth and Philip Guston, we bypass (but can’t ignore) Spongebob, Ren and Stimpy and a ... http://theember.com.au/?p=1012 - Jon Hurford The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson With the release of one film version, and another from Hollywood on the way, the only comment on any of Larsson’s ‘Millennium’ series that really matters is the one on the shelf at the store: 'Re-order if stock drops ... http://theember.com.au/?p=999