Monash contributor
The People’s Force: A history of Victoria Police by Robert Haldane
by John Arnold •
A Scandal in Bohemia: The life and death of Mollie Dean by Gideon Haigh
by Anna MacDonald •
America Looks to Australia: The hidden role of Richard Casey in the creation of the Australia–America alliance, 1940–1942 by James Prior
by Rémy Davison •
Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915–1985 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
by Gabriel García Ochoa •
12 February 2018
Translation can be an art or a craft; seldom simple, it is often unappreciated. We tend to forget that the global community of ceaseless interconnectivity could not exist without translation, or bilingualism. Without translation there is Babel, but with its quiet, endless grinding, translation brings down walls and creates porous ...
... (read more)Who knows why, but there have been at least three films in recent months focusing on the Dunkirk evacuation: Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest, Christopher Nolan’s magisterial Dunkirk. and now Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour. Unsurprisingly in view of this, we have also seen a lot of Winston Churchill on our screens ...
... (read more)Anthony Powell: Dancing to the music of time by Hilary Spurling
by Brian McFarlane •