Ian Callinan

Australian art in the Roaring Twenties

3 July 2021 9:00 am

The only criticism that can be levelled at For the Fallen by Paul Paffen is that it lacks the hard…

Anatomy of fiction

15 August 2020 9:00 am

By more than a mile the best book I have read during the pandemic is Tim Finch’s Peace Talks. It…

Spy who came in from the EU

14 December 2019 9:00 am

I read Mr le Carré’s latest spy novel, Agent Running in the Field last weekend, despite everything. What do I…

Australian diary

16 February 2019 9:00 am

Although it is a winter of discontent in Europe, there was little overt evidence of it in Vienna.  It was…

Australian diary

13 January 2018 9:00 am

When I visited India as a tourist 47 years ago I was told that the population of Delhi was about…