Dear Member,
We're hosting so many events this week we had to leave some out of the list you see above. The highlights will definitely be the Intelligence Squared debate on Afghanistan on Thursday and the Thomas Friedman event on Friday.
But there's one event not on the list: tomorrow morning, Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu will announce the shortlists for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.
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Memory in the Digital Age
For as long as we can collectively remember, humans have struggled against the failings of human memory. But a new book argues that, in the course of a generation, the problem of memory has been flipped on its head.
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Salinger’s Cult Phenomenon Turns 60
It’s 60 years since The Catcher in the Rye was published. Brigid Delaney, journalist and columnist, reflects on what the book means for her.
I was 11 or 12. It was my mother’s book club novel and had been borrowed from the library. I don’t know why I opened it – but once I did my life changed.
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“A Triumph for Investigative Reporting”
Expensive, time-consuming, redundant – and still necessary. News of the death of investigative reporting has been greatly exaggerated, if Hackgate is any barometer. The story that has dominated (most) headlines in recent weeks has been labelled a “triumph for investigative reporting”, not least for reporter Nick Davies.
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