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 …
Audacious, rambling….this author revels in bridging genre and high-gloss literature. Its a super-tome coming in at 1032 pages, which i have difficulty lifting. He blends police procedural, the horror of Stephen King and the density of David.F. Wallace. Its the …
No account of Gough Whitlam can satisfy the curiosity about this titular politician. There has been no one like Gough Whitlam in the public eye–a charismatic, inspirational leader who ushered in a reform revolution to modernise Australia, which even critics …
This tome is a a recipe for “Wow” moments . The author Robert Temple describes the history of numerous inventions to highlight the ingenuity of Chinese civilisation. Some of these are well known, like paper and the compass. But most …
When all unconverted Jews are expelled from Spain during th Inquisition, a 15-year-old Yonah Toledano is left behind. He begins a meandering journey, part desperate flight, part voyage of discovery. The story of his growth into manhood ‐ as a …
Whenever you position entertainers performing in neon-lit clubs and pubs, chances are there will be a wannabe gangster or two hanging about. Selling drugs and sex has always been a conduit for making quick do-re-mi, with potential customers invariably …
At the outset of 1870, the British Aristocracy could rightly consider them the most fortunate people on earth. They held the lion’s share of land, wealth, and power in the world’s greatest Empire. However, by the end of the 1930s …
Arthur Schnitzler’s novella DREAM STORY (TRAUMNOVELLE) may be the best known as the genesis of Stanley Kubrick’s last completed film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999) staring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Although Kubrick shifted the story from Imperial Vienna before World …
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 |