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David Free

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
3
Latest publication
Sep 29, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Age
Top 10K sites
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Jul 28, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · David Free

    He lasted 11 days in Trump’s White House. Now the Mooch has a warning (opens the original)

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    When I eagerly put up my hand to review Anthony Scaramucci’s All the Wrong Moves, I was anticipating a juicy read. As a podcaster and TV pundit, Scaramucci – aka “the Mooch” – always provides good value. He’s a foul-mouthed, straight-shooting New Yorker who, after briefly serving in Donald Trump’s first administration, came to view his dalliance with Trump as a grave moral error. Ever since, most of his foul-mouthed straight shooting has been aimed straight at Trump. Trump’s sidekicks have alway

  2. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · David Free

    The raw, moving reality check Australian fiction needs (opens the original)

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    The world chronicled in Max Easton’s Now, Autonomy is both familiar and foreign. Set in Sydney’s inner west, the novel is peppered with local landmarks and place names: Newtown, Homebush, Parramatta Road, Central Station, Hyde Park, the QVB, the Marrickville Bowling Club. In that sense, the terrain of Easton’s book is commonplace. But the social world his characters live in is offbeat, at least by the standards of Australian fiction. Most Australian novels are – let’s face it – middle-class affa

  3. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · David Free

    Is Nolan’s The Odyssey better than the book? It’s complicated (opens the original)

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    Is the movie as good as the book? The question always arises when a filmmaker adapts one of our favourite texts. Not many book-based movies turn out better than the works that inspired them. Jaws and The Godfather spring to mind as rare examples. But most of the time we find ourselves lamenting the movie’s failure to reproduce all the marvellous mental pictures we imagined when reading the book. Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey is a remarkable piece of old-school epic filmmaking

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