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2017 January 28 Archives - News Weekly

Issue 2017 January 28

Articles in this issue:

  • BOOK REVIEW The tyranny of the offended
  • BOOK REVIEW Not quite perfect but worth a revisit

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    BOOK REVIEW The tyranny of the offended

    Editorial TeamJan 28, 20175 min read

      ‘I FIND THAT OFFENSIVE’ by Claire Fox   Biteback Publishing, London Hardcover: 179 pagesISBN: 9781849549813 Price: AUD $19.99 Reviewed by John Young   In a talk to senior schoolgirls Claire Fox remarked, quoting Germaine Greer, that rape is not necessarily the worst thing that can happen to an individual. “The room erupted,” Fox writes. “The audience shrieked. A teacher…

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    BOOK REVIEW Not quite perfect but worth a revisit

    Editorial TeamJan 28, 20179 min read

      EVELYN WAUGH: A Life Revisited by Philip Eade   Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London Paperback: 432 pagesISBN: 9780297609483 Price: AUD $35.00 Reviewed by Jeffry Babb   Reading this fine biography reveals Evelyn Waugh as a brilliant and learned prose stylist whose work has outlasted his age, comparable only perhaps to that of Evelyn Waugh’s friend and contemporary Graham Greene. Both were…

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