Book review – biography
Tortured genius
Among the clever young Australians who came over here in the 1960s to find themselves and make their mark, a…
Great Scot
When John Bellany died in August last year, an odyssey that had alternately beguiled and infuriated the art world came…
A dogged opportunist
Of a dashing political rival, François Mitterrand once remarked: He was more intelligent than I was, he thought faster than…
Violence was his vocation
Heroically brave and mad, prodigious in his industry and appetites, Norman Mailer was an altogether excessive figure. Since his death…
