Columbus' Blindness, and Other Essays

Summary: Twenty winning essays in a competition, chosen for their passion, personal expression, complexity and craft. Topics include Lake Pedder; Simone Weil; Kaganovich, the last surviving Russian Stalinist high official; children in commercials; the language of economic rationalism as an abyss of pish; barcodes; and Mahler's 'Resurrection Symphony'. Australian authors include Delia Falconer, Rosie Scott, Carmel Bird, Terry ...Lane and Joanna Mendelssohn. [read more]