There’s a motherhood story that when Donald Trump first announced that he was running for president in 2015, Tucker Carlson, the then host of Fox & Friends Weekend, was one of the few pundits who took his candidacy seriously. “He …
At a time when the media flood us with messages of despair, works like BICYCLOPOLIS provides a plausible– possible antidote; a simple, earnest story of a believably sustainable town, armed to defend itself against imposed progress, may resonate with those …
There is frisson that’s embraced when regarding the graphic novelist’s version of Proust’s labyrinthine classic that’s sumptuous and elegant, a feat of digestible beauty.
When Stephane Heuet, a French comic artist began publishing his graphic adaptation of Marcel Proust, it …
The Ottoman Empire collapse at the end of the First World War is often treated as a foregone conclusion. It was only a matter of time the story goes, before the so-called ‘sick man’ of Europe succumbed to its ailments– …
I read Mary Shelley’s spellbinding novel in my youth before I was aware of myths and schizophrenia, so I was somewhat at a disadvantage.
The book’s first several chapters cleverly stack up like a geometric proof, each chapter contributing to …
This was a gripping read by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Holocaust, Saul Friedlander
DIARY OF A CRISIS explores the past turbulence and traumatic year of Israeli politics begining in January 2023 as the country was convulsed by protests
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This fantasy/romance novel centres around Wren, princess of Thezmarr, an alchemist and poisoner, and Torj, a warrior whose bravery is renowned across the Midrealms. These two have history, having fought together in the magical Shadow War …
Alison Lester’s much loved children’s book MAGIC BEACH hs been reimagined for the screen.
Via Lester’s book you can visit a perfect beach where you can swim, surf, splash through the waves, build sandcastles, beachcomb, explore rock pools, muck about …
THE SUNBIRD by Sara Haddad tells the story of a young girl, displaced as a result of Al Nakba or ‘the catastrophe,’ the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
Structured as a parallel narrative, the …
Waverley Council has announced that Melissa Lucashenko has been awarded the 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award for her novel EDENGLASSIE (UQP). Presented at the Bondi Pavillion Theatre, this year’s Award