A brilliant autumn road trip to Ballarat
The 90-minute drive from Melbourne to Ballarat is long enough to build anticipation but short enough to avoid "are we there yet?" from the...
Marie Curie by Sydney Srinivas: A radiant legacy
At the recent launch of Prof. Sydney Srinivas’ latest book on Marie Curie, Ewelina Ellsmore, the Literature Coordinator of the Polish School of Sydney,...
Alok Vaid-Menon: Comedy, identity, and the politics of being
If you’re a South Asian person, you can probably guess why Alok Vaid-Menon calls their show “Hairy Situation”.
“I've been a hairy person my entire...
Spoken Sanskrit, anyone?
After a full day at the ongoing Australian Spoken Sanskrit Summer School at ANU, student Jane reflected, “I’m enjoying the immersion in the language....
Romance bookstores are booming in Australia and worldwide
Once, if you wanted to buy romance novels, you had to know where to look. Some small outlets stocked paperback romances, as well as department stores like...