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Qantas Magazine Iq March 2018 172 THE DIARY IQ. Singer-songwriter Bruno Mars brings his 24K Magic World Tour to Perth IQ. Holiday Homework New York This 24/7 metropolis where hustle outweighs bustle exerts a powerful fascination. With a bit of pre-flight prep, you can be a part of it. By Hazel Flynn. Watch Listen There are great films about If ever a piece of music captured every aspect of New York life. the city’s relentless pace and In a mere five-year period, 1972 interwoven rhythms, it’s to 1976, The Godfather, Mean Rhapsody in Blue composed Streets, Serpico and Taxi Driver by George Gershwin, who marked out the compass points said listeners might hear in it of its underbelly. Hester Street suggestions of “a picnic party (1975), Man Push Cart (2005) in Brooklyn”, “a Harlem and Brooklyn (2015) explore the cabaret” and “a New York immigrant experience; racial crowd”. The music (along with tensions drive West Side Story Gordon Willis’s stunning black- (1961), Shaft (1971) and Do the and-white cinematography) Right Thing (1989); and Wall propelled Woody Allen’s 1979 Street (1987) dissects ruthless film,Manhattan, and featured greed. But as a sole desert- in The Great Gatsby (2013). It island choice, you can’t beat sounds as fresh and relevant as the 1949 musical On the Town. it did when it debuted in 1924. Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshin and Gene Kelly are sailors Also consider… on shore leave, cramming in ◖ Empire State of Mind (2009): 24 hours worth of sights and Jay-Z found the perfect romance in this exuberant love collaborator for this song letter to the “wonderful town” in Alicia Keys. His rap includes where “the Bronx is up and the crushed dreams among Battery’s down”. the boasts but her soaring chorus sells New York as the Read dream-big destination. A post-9/11 reimagining of J.D. Salinger’s The Great Gatsby, Joseph O’Neill’s acclaimed Also consider… 2008 novel, Netherland, finds ◖ The Bonfire of the Vanities a whole new angle on New (1987): Tom Wolfe’s 700-page York. The key is, of all things, skewering of Wall Street’s cricket. Separated from his “Masters of the Universe” has family, a Dutch banker meets dated but the novel remains a Trinidadian immigrant a fast, cynically funny read whose Gatsby-sized ambitions that spares no-one. include making Americans ◖ Mapping Manhattan (2013): love the “gentleman’s game”. Becky Cooper gave hand-drawn Together they crisscross the maps to New Yorkers of all kinds (From top) Brownstones city, from privileged heart and asked them to mark places in Harlem; O’Neill’s ode to furthest forgotten reaches, significant to them. The result to NYC hits a six; a scene a canvas O’Neill makes his own. is this beautiful little book. from On the Town 158 travelinsider.qantas.com.au IQ. 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The movie rights have been sold; Charlize Theron will produce and star. ← RATHER HIS OWN MAN Geoffrey Robertson / Penguin Random House / $45 After almost 50 years of being up to his neck in human rights and freedom-of-speech issues, acting for the likes of Julian Assange and working with an earlier incarnation of Malcolm Turnbull on the Spycatcher trial, lawyer Geoffrey Robertson has abundant autobiographical ammunition. He fled conservative Australia for the UK in the ’60s, became a Rhodes scholar and quickly earnt his stripes assisting legendary QC John Mortimer on the OZ magazine obscenity trial, igniting a spectacular career as a barrister, academic and broadcaster. Throw in marriage to Australian novelist Kathy Lette (they have The Cage recently divorced) and this is a memoir that is by turns gossipy and gobsmackingly enthralling. Lloyd Jones / Text Publishing / $30 When a pair of strangers turns up in a small country town, the locals ← are curious. Obviously down on their luck, the men are dressed in OFF THE RECORD rags, have no money and appear to be on the run from something. However, they refuse to answer any questions about the disaster Craig Sherborne / Text Publishing / $30 that is presumed to have befallen them. The locals are initially Callum “Words” Smith is not a very likeable hospitable then wary. The men’s reluctance to speak arouses character. An ex-newspaper journalist working suspicion, followed by fear. Sensing which way the wind is blowing, for sensationalist website Pry, he knows all the they try to slip away but the townsfolk turn vigilante, hunting them dirty tricks. Petty and mean-spirited, he uses the down and imprisoning them in a cage in the hotel’s backyard. Their few friends he has left to enhance his career. He novice jailer, the young nephew of the hotel proprietors, feeds and cheats on his wife. Then, when she throws him waters the captives. He also has to report on their behaviour to the out, he tricks his son into spying on her, before “trustees” who run the town and display a warped concern for dobbing in her new boyfriend for being a tax the comfort of their “guests”. Lloyd Jones, short-listed for The Man cheat. He’s a bastard, pure and simple. But Booker Prize in 2007 for the multi-awarded Mister Pip, has crafted there’s always a bigger bastard. So when Words a profound and unsettling allegorical fable with his latest novel. gets his comeuppance, it comes as little surprise. Its powerful message camouflaged by almost fairytale simplicity, Things fall apart but this leopard doesn’t change The Cage explores how quickly humanity and dignity can segue his spots. Taking pot shots at tabloid journalism into brutality when communication breaks down. Trust is revealed “ethics” and male vanity, Off the Record is a as fragile, forever at the mercy of authoritarian impulse. clever if somewhat contrived satire. 160 travelinsider.qantas.com.au Technology Sound advice 1 4 2 3 6 photography by GUY BAILEY 5 Whether you’re a gym junkie or just looking to tune out on a long-haul flight, there are headphones with your name on them. By Nic Healey. 162 travelinsider.qantas.com.au IQ. 4. Best for global travel Google Pixel Buds $249 | store.google.com First the bad news: to access the 1. Best for style best feature of these cool earbuds Bang & Olufsen – real-time translation of 40 Beoplay E8 languages via the Google Translate app – you’re going to need a Google $449 | beoplay.com Pixel phone. The good news? It’s The E8 wireless earbuds continue worth getting one. The Pixel Buds Bang & Olufsen’s proud reputation look striking and are packed with for superior sound and smart value. 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