Miriam Cosic

Miriam Cosic is a journalist and critic, and a former literary editor of the Australian. Born in Melbourne, she now lives in Sydney and is the author of Only Child (1999) and Right to Die: An Examination of the Euthanasia Debate (2003).

Works By Miriam Cosic

Exhortations to the Resistance
If we take institutional arrangements for granted, do we notice when they cease to work? Here I mean arrangement such as regular elections, democratic legislatures, independent law courts and a free press, which together form the bedrock of democr...
4 June. 2019
Undue process: In the Company of Cowards by Michael Mori
Two lessons may be learned from American military lawyer Michael Mori’s account of his defence of David Hicks. Neither of the lessons is new, but each requires constant reaffirmation. The first is that power corrupts. Despite its high-flown rhetor...
5 Dec. 2014
Dare to know! The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters
All of this – the contradictions, the about-faces, the progressions and regressions, the many and varied strands of argument and implementation – is the legacy of the Enlightenment. Which makes the title of historian Anthony Pagden’s latest book,
22 Nov. 2013
Anatomy of difference: Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon
In Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon... forensically examines families in which children turn out to be not what their parents had fondly expected. The title is a twist on the proverb, ‘The apple never falls far from the tree’. His question is: Bu...
12 Apr. 2013

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Miriam Cosic

Works By Miriam Cosic

Exhortations to the Resistance

Undue process: In the Company of Cowards by Michael Mori

Dare to know! The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters

Anatomy of difference: Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon