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Monica Goldberg at the SWF

Work by Sydney Jewish writer Monica Goldberg will feature in the Sydney Writers’ Festival later this month. [Read more]

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

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. [Read more]

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

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

A new look at the Australia-Israel relationship

Australia and Israel’s complex relationship has received a fresh public examination with the release of the new academic collection, Australia and Israel: A Diasporic, Political and Relationship. [Read more]

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

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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