Culture Shocks

• Shirley Hazzard’s life writing in light of her authorized biography – July 2023
• False memories: How Errol Flynn gaslit his ghostwriter – June 2023
• On the question of whether Iris Murdoch was a Soviet spy – Overland, March 2022
• The tale tellers: why Muriel Spark fell out with Shirley Hazzard – Overland, November 2021
• Ned Kelly – ‘The Man with the Iron Head’ – johnmenadue.com, May 2021
• The Colour of the Road – Embark, April 2021
• Rewriting the creation myth of Blue Poles as it approaches 70 – johnmenadue.com, March 2021
• Sidney Nolan’s St Kilda paintings: the ‘innocence’ of a man in his 20s with a wife and two mistresses – johnmenadue.com, February 2021
• The Curious Case of the Memetic Marsupial, January 2021
• Whose Kangaroo Was It Anyway? – johnmenadue.com, December 2020
• The war reparations of Sidney Nolan and Benjamin Britten – reckless innocence? – johnmenadue.com, November 2020
• Lady Chatterley and Alexander Portnoy: Narrowing the Limits of Censorship in Australia – johnmenadue.com, November 2020
• Re-Reading The Lady Chatterley Trials In New York And London After 60 Years, adelaidemagazine.org, October 2020
• The Conundrum of the London Kangaroos – johnmenadue.com, September 2020
• ‘What would you have me do? Go to the wars?’ Sidney Nolan’s soldier – overland.org.au, September 2020
• D.H.Lawrence’s Australian Climacteric – johnmenadue.com, August 2020
• Fast Tracking a National Care Service – johnmenadue.com, August 2020
• GRETA – adelaidemagazine.org, May 2020
• Blue Poles – Asset or Liability? April 2020
• Sir Kenneth Clark’s Australian Epiphany, January 2020
• James Mollison: the public art teacher who brought the Blue Poles to Australia – The Conversation, January 2020
• Who Sold Blue Poles to Australia? – Meanjin blog, January 2020
• Indecent Advertisements: The Ern Malley Hoax – Meanjin blog, June 2019
• Peevish Paddy and Sir Neddy: Patrick White’s Nobel Prize – Meanjin blog, December 2018
• What Will the Judge’s Copy Tell Us About the Second Lady Chatterley Trial? – Meanjin blog, October 2018
• Ern and Ned, Sun and Sid: The Anglo-Australian School of Faux Naive Fusionism – Meanjin, Spring (Australia) September 2018
• Blue poles 45 years on: asset or overvalued drip painting? – The Conversation, September 2018
• The Sidney Nolan mystery: did British government knowingly knight a wartime deserter? – The Conversation, February 2018
• How huge gamble by Lady Chatterley lawyers changed obscenity law forever – The Conversation, November 2017
• Sodomy’s low profile in Lady Chatterley trial – The Guardian, November 2017
• How huge gamble by ‘Lady Chatterley’ lawyers changed obscenity law forever – Independent, November 2017
• Kangaroo pictures found at RCS may be Australia’s earliest oil paintings – The Guardian, March 2017