Books

Canvas

It's absurd that our best books are not made into films

Peter Craven Why don't we have a film industry that is more sensitive to the riches of Australian writing?

Aviva Truffield

How to inspire men to read books by women

Aviva Truffield Unconscious prejudice means books by female authors are overlooked.

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Heckler

Books you have to read

Heckler I'M HAVING trouble with the proclivity among women of a certain age of giving each other reading material.

Heckler

Pull the plug on e-books

Heckler I'll never buy an e-reader. I love paper books too much. Every day I read that yet another cut-price e-reader has squished itself into the booming market.

Heckler

Browsing for books a pain

Heckler I have not one, not two, but three heckles that I'll lump together as bibliopathology, for want of a better term.

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Heckler

Novel way to get into my bad books

Heckler I LIKE good books and admire those who write them. But sometimes ''good'' books are not so good. You know the ones you buy thinking ''I should read that some time'', that sit on your bookshelf for...

Jane Sullivan

The future of books

Jane Sullivan One of my favourite whizz-bang gadgets is a thing called the Book. No, not iBook, e-book, m-book or anything like that. Just a handy-sized collection of bound pages and type.

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Heckler

Weigh-in plan cleared for take-off

Heckler YET again I have been subjected to discrimination at an airport check-in counter.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Something for Kate? Not this Mantel piece portrait of a young duchess

Barbara Taylor Bradford I am a fan of Hilary Mantel's books. I even sent her a congratulatory email when she won her second Booker Prize.

Kasey Edwards

Poor Hilary has royal message lost in rush to shout her down

Kasey Edwards If you didn't know who Hilary Mantel was before now, all you need to know is that she's a big, fat, barren, feminist turncoat.

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Dirty laundry leaves a nation stained

Germaine Greer Australians of Irish descent will be particularly interested in the unfolding saga of the Magdalenes.

Dugald Jellie

Whether to run chooks in the city is a paltry matter

Dugald Jellie After voicing some concern, the Stonnington council is letting feathers fly.

Richard Glover

Bidets: where the 70s went wrong

Richard Glover Looking back, it's clear that our parents were all insane.

Ray Connolly

Ageing readers, start taking the tablet - if only for the sake of your eyes

Ray Connolly Own up: which do you prefer, a traditional book or an electronic reading device? Until very recently, that probably depended largely on how old you are.

Darwin, dinosaurs and the devil

Mark Joseph Stern An Australian creationist believes Charles Darwin is to blame for drug abuse and pornography, and that people rode dinosaurs.

Alecia Simmonds

Why oh why, Gen Y, are you so nauseatingly conservative?

Alecia Simmonds In the late '90s, when raving meant dancing and sun-dried tomatoes meant culinary sophistication, I joined a group at university called the Activist Left.

Heckler

Going back to school will never be the same

Heckler ''DROP off your school list and we will pack it for you to pick up later.'' This is the offer from a big office supplies chain. I can't imagine anything worse.

Martin Flanagan

We'll miss his leap onto the bed to nose out company

Martin Flanagan He was just a dog - four paws, a wiry tail and a thin, moist, inquisitive nose we called the ''nazer''. He was a whippet and he could run like racing pigeons can fly.

Opinion

Tarantino's lost the plot and needs a good editor

Keith Austin OK, let's get this over and done with. I'm going to talk about Django Unchained, the new Quentin Tarantino movie out in cinemas on Thursday and I'm going to use the 'N' word.

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