The Best Australian Essays 2009

  • The Best Australian Essays 2009: Easyread Comfort Edition
    By Robyn Davidson Davidson

    Organised by Douglas Cooper, it travelled to the Tate Gallery in London afterwards. Cooper observed in his catalogue introduction: Between 1930 and 1950 little was heard of the greatness of Monet while his imaginative late works were ...

  • The Best Australian Essays 2009: Easyread Large Edition
    By Robyn Davidson

    Sylvester reviewed the 1957 Tate exhibition for the New Statesman and criticised the curator Douglas Cooper for not giving more prominence to Monet's late works. He wrote a second article about the exhibition which was published in the ...

  • The Best Australian Essays 2009: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

    Kate Jennings' 'Home Truths' first appeared in the Monthly, July 2009; her 'Once a Financial Anchor' is an extract from Quarterly Essay 32, American Revolution: The Fall of Wall Street and the Rise of Barack Obama, Black Inc., ...

  • The Best Australian Essays 2009
    By Robyn Davidson

    ... Australia's World Heritage wet tropics. It's a place seemingly untouched by the modern world, full of ancient rainforest life, much of it found nowhere else on Earth. If you had taken a night-time walk through that forest a few years ...

  • The Best Australian Essays 2009
    By Robyn Davidson

    This year's Best Australian Essays ranges far and wide. There are portraits of Michael Jackson, Samuel Beckett, the kookaburra, Julia Gillard and Charles Darwin.