Its easy to be hypnotised by Florence’s Duomo’s facade when in a relatively short stroll away stands a true vision of history – the Basilica di San Lorenzo, once the city’s cathedral before the Duomo was built. Its facade …
The author Tyree Barnette casts a sharp light on the perspective that’s been missing from race discussions in Australia, one that focuses on how privilege snd race shifts across time and borders.
STOLEN MAN ON STOLEN LAND is a love …
If you fancy a detective story, Mary Beard’s is a voice apart with a conversational style of writing, belying her academic pedigree at its heart. This book is serious history written as a detective story.
What the author presents is …
Daniel Mendelsohn says, “There is no point of singularity to stories. Its the author who selects the point from which to jump-start his story; and from that point of view he can sidle either ways in time, covering the past …
The Italian Consulate with the Italian Istitute de Cultura hosted a powerful civic and cultural event.
Dramatist and actor, Diana Hobel rendered a strident emotive theatrical reading based on texts by Primo Levi and Hermann Langbein with original piano music …
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
In my Jewish world the cultural aspects of Judaism played the major role over the religious or spiritual aspects. So graduating from cultural Jew to learning what it really means to be a Jew makes my journey, hers and the …
Michael Gowenda wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald that Nikki Savaa is known in journalistic circles as not relying on anonymous sources for her examination on any subject she is commenting on. Her sources are named. They speak for …
For a novel written in the 1770s, it is remarkably modern in ways it addresses what are still very real issues. Diderot’s novel began life as a hoax to lure a friend back to Paris from his country estate. He …
With his book GLADIUS, Guy de la Bedoyere takes us straight to the heart of what it meant to be a part of the Roman army. Rather than a history of the army itself, or a guide to military …