Talia Marshall's debut book Whaea Blue (2024) is a force of nature. Abandoning neutral expressions of praise, New Zealand's reviewers have spoken of it in tones of dazed warning: the book is 'stunning', 'haunted', and 'alarming in its honesty'. But while it has its wild moments, it also has notes of humour and gentleness, 'whaea' means mother or aunty...
We recently spent a few weeks in Otranto, the easternmost city of Italy’s mainland whose geographical situation—close to the Balkan peninsula—has shaped much of...
Bari has a wonderful, recently renovated museum devoted to ancient archeological finds on the Salentine peninsula (the heel of Italy’s ‘boot’). While it’s much...
Tunisia is a sweet place to visit, not least because of the evocative Roman ruins overlaying tantalizing traces of the even more ancient Carthaginian...
