Kevin Foster

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Kevin Foster is an Associate Professor in the School of English Communications and Performance Studies at Monash University. He is the author of Fighting Fictions: War, Narrative and National Identity (1999) and Lost Worlds: Latin America and the Imagining of Empire (2009), and the editor of What are we doing in Afghanistan? The Military and the Media at War (2009) and The Information Battlefield: Representing Australians at War (2011).

All essays by Kevin Foster

Essay: Kevin Fosteron war reporting

Don’t Mention the War

How is it possible in the network society of the twenty-first century that the Australian public should have been so ill informed for so long about what its troops have been doing in Afghanistan, and why has this situation been allowed to persist?
Dec. 2013 • •
Review: Kevin Fosteron Salman Rushdie
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  • Joseph Anton: A Memoir by Salman Rushdie Jonathan Cape
    656pp
    $35.00 AU
    Published September, 2012
    ISBN 9780224093989

Yours, Outraged, of no fixed address: Joseph Anton: A Memoir

It is, of course, possible to live by one’s principles, but it takes a superhuman effort to guard them from any taint of compromise and, as Joseph Anton demonstrates in excruciating detail, it inflicts a heavy toll on those compelled to share the burden of such unbending rectitude.

Feb. 2013 •