Film review: A White, White Day
A White, White Day is a film that would have made an impact even without a pandemic delaying all other releases
By Francisco Silva - 2 min read
The Wisdom of Tea
We know that all we really have is today. The pandemic has illustrated this fact on a global scale. Our lives and the world can…
By Lema Samandar - 2 min read
Deadliest Enemy: Our War against Killer Germs
This year’s pandemic has frequently been dubbed a “black swan” event; a cataclysm so unfathomable that no one could have predicted it. Except that one…
By Kate Allman - 2 min read
Gathering Dark
When composing a cracking work of fiction, killer opening lines are an essential ingredient. The sucker-punch first words of Gathering Dark – “I looked up…
By Amy Dale - 2 min read
Homer’s The Odyssey
The COVID-19 era has seen the temporary closure of many bookstores and delayed the release of highly anticipated books. So, if social distancing and isolation…
By Amy Dale - 2 min read
The Spy and the Traitor
On a summer’s evening in Moscow, at the heart of the Cold War in July 1985, a man stands on the pavement of a busy…
By Amy Dale - 2 min read
The Medicine: A Doctor’s Notes
As a hospital general physician, Dr Hitchcock regularly holds life in her hands and fields more phone calls from anxious friends and family about their…
By Amy Dale - 2 min read
Gulpilil
In 1971, an 18-year-old Yolngu man named David Gulpilil made his debut in a film titled Walkabout and became an international sensation. Walkabout is still…
By Anastasia Kalos - 2 min read
American Dirt
Before it even hit shelves, American Dirt was an odyssey. From beginning the decade as one of the most-hyped novels, anticipation soon turned to anger…
By Amy Dale - 2 min read