Winning The Literary Prize Fight
June 29, 2012 By
Campbell Newman wielded his blade to cut down the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards for populism and profit. Yet we suspect the cash-for-cultural-commentary gambit is only growing.
Words Of The Year 2011
January 9, 2012 By
The annual Words of the Year for 2011 (from across the world) include the obvious, the not so, and the downright WTF.
What’s In A Name?
October 24, 2011 By
Is the Shakespeare authorship question history’s greatest troll? We examine this literary controversy ahead of the November release of disaster-porn director Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous.
Bryan Gaensler’s Extreme Cosmos: Part Two
August 30, 2011 By
In part two of our chat with prodigious astronomer Bryan Gaensler we marvel at mind-boggling numbers, aliens, creationists and the lamentable lack of women in the field.
Bryan Gaensler’s Extreme Cosmos: Part One
August 29, 2011 By
Astronomer and Melbourne Writers’ Festival guest Bryan Gaensler speaks to The Enthusiast about Wikipedia research, star-naming and the astronomical speed of information turnover.
Wheen On Paranoia: Part Three
September 23, 2010 By
In the final part of our conversation with one of our Fantasy Dinner Party attendees, Francis Wheen, we chat about his hither and thither feud with Clive James, September 11, and Tony Blair’s runaway fantasies.
Wheen On Paranoia: Part Two
September 22, 2010 By
In Part Two of our interview, Brit wit Francis Wheen discusses the last Flat-Earther, Lord Monckton’s “World’s Most Difficult Jigsaw”, the Koran, Mein Kampf, Protocols Of the Elders Of Zion and other difficult books.
Wheen On Paranoia: Part One
September 20, 2010 By
In Part One of our expansive conversation with master raconteur Francis Wheen, we chat about a secret botched British military coup and how the internet encourages ludicrous beliefs more than it discourages them.
Overheard Is The New Oracle
August 23, 2010 By
We interview droll illustrator Oslo Davis about his cartoon collection Overheard, and whether random strangers sometimes provide the wisest life advice.
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