BOOK REVIEW: John Berger and Me
The measure of how much I enjoyed this book is that as I was reading it I was also compiling my list of Top Ten Books of the 21st Century for ABC Radio National’s poll of its audience. I placed John Berger and Me, 2024, by Nikos Papastergiadis in second place behind Wittgenstein’s Poker, 2001, by David Edmonds and […]
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Book Review: NGV Triennial
Big. Bigger. Biggest. I remember learning by rote these comparative adjectives back in primary school in Glasgow in the 1960s. Everything about the NGV Triennial fits into the third category, not least the five kilogram catalogue that arrives in a box and unfolds into five volumes. Try putting that on a library shelf without it […]
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Peter Hill’s Superfictions
In Issue 46, Judith Pugh discusses Peter Hill’s elusive ‘Superfictions’, which exist in the gap between installation art and literary fiction.
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