There’s a phrase in John Cheever’s short story, ‘The Housebreaker of Shady Hill’, that comes to mind each year when the winter winds stop blowing and springtime arrives in a blaze of sudden sun, ...

From state censorship to civil war, military coups and sectarian violence, Arab filmmakers are facing unprecedented challenges to get their movies, and messages, out on the big screen. But this year's ...

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While some believe the uprisings of 2010-11 were a failure - the ferocity of the counter-revolution suggests otherwise A decade ago, a young Tunisian, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire to protest ...

As the subtitle suggests, it’s a ghost story, albeit a thrillingly self-aware and lightfooted one, focusing on Frances and Charlie, a pair of lovers who have recently abandoned Melbourne — and Charlie ...

In Michelle de Kretser's elegant novella Springtime, a group of friends in Sydney have a discussion about ghosts and ghost stories. One of the characters, Joseph, outlines the theory that people ...

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