A review of Distillations of Different Lands by Andrew Lansdown I met Andrew Lansdown in 1974 when I was trying to teach Creative Writing at Curtin University of Technology and he was the best [...]
A review of Return of the Heroes: The Lord of The Rings, Star Wars and Contemporary Culture by Hal Colebatch, published by the Australian Institute for Public Policy. Return of the Heroes is a [...]
There are some authors you know will not disappoint, and so you eagerly await their next volume. Historian and sociologist of religion Rodney Stark is one such writer whose growing library of [...]
Cory Bernardi, The Conservative Revolution, Connor Court, 2013. Unlike perhaps ninety per cent of the haters bashing Cory Bernardi on various websites, I actually have his new book and have [...]
In this new book by award-winning poet Andrew Lansdown, limericks and haiku jostle with rhymed verse and free verse to bring to life crazy critters, odd bods, fantasy worlds and the natural [...]
Les Murray, one of the best English-speaking poets in the world, said recently that “Probably the only greater Australian Christian poet [than James McAuley] is Andrew Lansdown”. This statement, [...]
A woman who is a neighbour of one of my colleagues home schools her three kids. She does a great job—except for one thing: She won’t let them read novels. At worst, they might be trashy; at best, [...]
A review of Cruel and Usual Punishment by Nonie Darwish (Thomas Nelson, 2008) Nonie Darwish knows a fair amount about Islam. She was an Egyptian Muslim for the first 30 years of her life. Then [...]
Prince Caspian, the sequel to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, began screening in Australian cinemas in the first week of June and I went along with my family to see it on the first day of [...]
We in the West are constantly being told that Islam is a religion of tolerance and peace. Indeed, the greater the atrocities committed in the name of Islam, the greater the protestations by [...]