Tag: Childhood
Ghoulishness, depravity and stupidity: welcome to the world of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona
Image: The Triumph of Death - Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1592). Public domain
Whether taken as a good or bad quality, Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona is a confounding novel....
Under the Black Flag Art Gallery of Ballarat – 10 September 2022 – 21 January 2023
Under the black flag
Art Gallery of Ballarat
10 September 2022 – 21 January 2023
ARRR, me hearties!
Mention the word pirate to most people and what springs...
THE FINAL STAGE – Adrian Rawlins review of what he called “My lost masterpiece”.
It started out like a normal day for the man of the house. He had breakfast with his wife. She was no warmer or...
WEEKENDS & HOBBIES & ROAST DINNERS
I was asked a few questions recently by a new friend that really had me thinking. Scrambling for answers actually, and aware of the...
THE DEAD AND THE DYING
The heavy decrepit bodies of the great and not so, mingled with their offsprings, children too young to realise that this too would be...
A WALK IN THE RAIN
He aged within the silences of our stilted conversation. His eyes were those of a man who’d seen his kingdoms fall and the survival...