Author pic : Vicky Petraitis
There’s plenty going on, both crime-wise and in Antigone Pollard’s life, which includes a domestic violence victim whose husband has died of a heart attack, Antigone’s ex-partner, a fellow police officer coming in to manage …
Pic Author Ken Liu. Pic courtesy Simon and Schuster
Have you ever had a dream one night and woken up the next morning to find it being advertised to you on your mobile phone? Did it make you wonder if …
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 …
This book, a magnificent, weighty feat of translation by celebrated author Daniel Mendelsohn brings the great epic, Homer’s Odyssey to vividly poetic new life. The author is known widely for his essays on classical literature and culture, gives us a …
Meanwhile the treasures and spoils of triumph from the Jewish revolt were directly translated into the monumental embellishment of Rome, the capital of Empire. The exiled Hebrews provided the slave labour in building this edific. Begun by Vespasian, the
If reading history doesn’t make you want to swear like a mom with a red-wine hangover walking barefoot through a LEGO-filled living room, then you’re not reading the right history.
James Fell is imminently funny, irreverent and an expert on …
Raul Hilberg’s THE DESTRUCTION OF THE EUROPEAN JEWS is arguably the most important book ever published on the Holocaust. A controversy over the German edition of Destruction lies at the assertion that historians at the Institute for Zeitgeschichte for |
In the tradition of talented Australian trailblazer feminist writers of historical fiction, Diane Armstrong and Geraldine Brooks, Alli Sinclair’s new novel A WOMAN’S VOICE is a true gem. It’s clever arc as a dual-timeline novel delves deftly into the power …
Barbara W Tuchman is is an amazing historian, twice recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, she enriches history like a terrific storyteller .
In THE MARCH OF FOLLY : FROM TROY TO VIETNAM, she does precisely as the title states, …
I have just purchased the most delightful book. The title kind of gives it away -yes, it is about music and is a compact guide for adults embarking on that scary journey – learning or relearning a musical instrument. Being …