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A Toast to Travel: a book review by Alan Gold

Alan Gold — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 04:38:52 +0000

There’s a type of writing which used to be in newspapers called ‘travel porn’, which older readers may remember. It was usually in the magazine or the end section of newspapers, but fortunately, it rarely appears any longer. More of an advert for a destination than an objective journalistic assessment of a location to help […]

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Who gave you permission?…a review by Alan Gold

Alan Gold — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 02:42:50 +0000

Alan Gold is reviews the memoir of a child sexual-abuse survivor who fought back.

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Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories…a book review by Alan Gold

Alan Gold — Mon, 09 May 2016 01:16:40 +0000

Some books are ‘must-read’. Others are ‘should read’. And a lot are ‘toss away without reading so you don’t let the facts bother you.’

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Lest we forget the Shoah…writes Alan Gold

Alan Gold — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 04:54:16 +0000

The recent commemoration of the 101st ANZAC Day was observed by tens of thousands of men, women and children in every city and town in Australia, as well as in the fields of France and on Turkey’s Gallipoli peninsula.

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Jewels and Ashes – A 25th Anniversary Edition: a book review by Alan Gold

Alan Gold — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 05:00:54 +0000

Virginia Woolf once said that every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works. Perhaps the finest example in Australia today of the elemental truth of Woolf’s words is in the body of work produced over the past quarter of a century by Arnold Zable.

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Frank Lowy, A Second Life…a book review by Alan Gold

Alan Gold — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 03:45:11 +0000

There are two lights which shine most brilliantly out of Jill Margo’s exceptional second volume of Frank Lowy’s biography.

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I Gave a Gonski…selected speeches by David Gonski. A book review by Alan Gold

Alan Gold — Fri, 29 May 2015 03:33:23 +0000

In his chapter on ‘Being a Chairman’, David Gonski says it’s easier to define a non-executive chairman by what he’s not, rather than by what he or she is. Which made me think of what the American astronomer, Clifford Stoll once said the internet age, “Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.”

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Adam Exx Exodus…a book review by Alan Gold

Alan Gold — Tue, 19 May 2015 23:21:36 +0000

There is a class of books being published these days which are best described as ‘metabooks’.

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Morris Lurie 1938-2014…Alan Gold writes

Alan Gold — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 06:45:09 +0000

One of the most significant Jewish voices in Australia has been silenced this week.

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My Promised Land by Ari Shavit…a book review by Alan Gold

Alan Gold — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 00:00:28 +0000

Even today, nation states are born out of a people’s hopes and aspirations.

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