Reviews
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The Game We Love, the Business We Built
David Goldblatt’s The Age of Football and what the beautiful game tells us about the society we are becoming. Celia…
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When Australian Literature Looks Beyond Australia
Omar Musa’s Fierceland wins the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award and challenges old assumptions about place, identity and what an…
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
What Price Are We Prepared to Pay for a Good Society? Artemis Orphanou Eva Ierides Dinos Toumazos Ursula K. Le…
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Hiroshima, by John Hersey – A timeless masterpiece of journalism, memory, and humanity
Few books have altered public understanding of a historical event as profoundly as Hiroshima. Eva Alexander First published in 1946,…
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The Sixth Extinction: A Powerful Reminder That Nature Is Not Separate from Humanity
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert belongs firmly in the latter category. Isla Hera Awarded the Pulitzer…
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Revisiting the Past to Understand the Present
Reflections on Fredric Jameson’s The Ancients and the Postmoderns Angie D. Canell Few contemporary cultural theorists have influenced the study…
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Why Nations Need Historical Self Reflection
Democracy grows stronger when societies have the courage to understand their own past. Artemis Kechagioglou Every nation carries a history…
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Seeing Disruption Before It Happens
In his recent article, Confronting Disruption and Seeing It Coming, published by Pearls and Irritations, Australian academic Professor Steve Dovers,…
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Antoun Issa’s novel of loss and rebirth
Deepcut News co-founder and journalist Antoun Issa captures his mother’s true experiences of love, heartbreak and new hope during the…
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A Necessary but Uneven Warning About Authoritarian Thinking
For Ibram X. Kendi, It’s Nazis All the Way Down – By Gal Beckerman Ibram X. Kendi’s Chain of Ideas…
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Two Women, Two Worlds
Different lives can still share one heart. Dinos Toumazos The Other Hand is a novel by Chris Cleave. Στα σύνορα…
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Children of Aphrodite: A Journey of Cypriots in Australia
A simple story about people, culture, and how many traditions come together in one new home. Dinos Toumazos Different roots,…
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The Quiet Power of Taste
How Giorgio Agamben invites us to rethink what we like Dinos Toumazos Sensitivity as a gentle form of freedom Ιn…
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Who will prosecute Geoffrey Robertson’s peerless plan for peace?
In his new book Geoffrey Robertson argues the UN Security Council can no longer defend democracy and proposes a new…
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Ideas in Conflict: A Life Lived Through Public Debate
Review of A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat in the Cold War and the Culture Wars Robert Manne | La Trobe…
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Privilege Unseen, Responsibility Unclaimed
A simple review of On Privilege by Julian Burnside Dinos Toumazos Understanding advantage helps build a fair and sustainable society…
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