A Matter of Death and Life is an extremely candid and readable memoir about the painful, yet insightful and productive last months of a long, loving relationship that ended with the death of Marilyn Yalom.
I’ve read a lot during the Covid-19 lockdown periods. Obviously, I’ve only selected books that I thought I’d enjoy and largely I’ve been happy with my varied choices.
I’m in a chatty Garrison Keillor sort of mood today so I thought I might commence with a few words about Melbourne’s Hybrid Publishers...writes Geoffrey Zygier.
In the first two decades following World War Two, it was rare for Holocaust survivors to publicise their experiences - and of course, their persecutors had every reason to keep their mouths firmly closed.
Fly Already, the latest collection of short stories by Etgar Keret not only includes 22 new tales, but also an uncharacteristic side-swipe at Donald Trump.
The Holocaust may be the most written-about episode in modern history. More than seventy years have passed since the liberation of the extermination camps, yet interest never seems to flag.
The Western world today is a place where victimhood is a badge of honour, one where people compete in public arenas to be among the elite of those who suffer.
