Easter Saturday Procession Quito, Ecuador
Good Friday, Quito, Ecuador
Street art Valparaiso,,Chile
Street art, Santiago, Chile
Paper bark art, the natural beauty of Australian trees
Art collaboration to help preserve a timeless culture
We almost missed it. Heading for the car park we only just remembered seeing a small gallery, slightly tucked away from the vaulted ceilings of the main display area of the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. Should we go back? Thank goodness we did. Midawarr (Harvest) is a glorious exhibition showcasing the…
Review: Leila Slimani’s Lullaby is part psychological thriller, part discerning social commentary
“The baby is dead.” It’s a confident author who opens with the end. Particularly an ending so shocking, so visceral, that it might repel the reader. But Lullaby by French-Moroccan writer Leila Slimani does the opposite. The description of the scene surrounding the baby’s death, is so devastatingly succinct, that…
Where in the world? Suva, Fiji Islands
Looking back on the year in books
So many books. So little time. As another year comes to a close it’s time for a some literary accounting. Discounting January, when my focus was entirely on uni text books, I read 69 books in 2017, including four non-fiction and one play. I did not count books that I…