Mercifully, the Victorian government social media advertisement promoting vaccination against the dreaded coronavirus, the subject of this Diatribe, is not in Greek. Most of the time, the Greek in state …

Last year before the onset of the pandemic, I was apprehended by an older acquaintance singing to my children, the lyrics of Roza Eskenazi’s immortal song: Πρέζαόταν πιεις. «Σαν μαστουρωθείς, …

«καὶ ἐμοσχοποίησαν ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις καὶ ἀνήγαγον θυσίαν τῷ εἰδώλῳ, καὶ εὐφραίνοντο ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις τῶν χειρῶν αὐτῶν». Acts 7:41 Standing on Dionysou Areopagitou Street, close to the Odeon …

It seems like only yesterday that fresh out of university and having written the NUGAS column for three years, I was afforded the unique privilege by then editor Nick Psaltopoulos …

At our local park, it always happens like this. Sundry parents, engrossed in their iphones, look up occasionally and call out to their children, who are attempting to extricate themselves …

I have a confession to make. All my life I have dreamed of having long hair, a felicitous state of hirsuteness that eludes me, since I appear to be biologically …

“People discovered within themselves a fragment of the Other, and they believed in this and lived confidently. People thus had three choices when they encountered the Other: They could choose …

In the aftermath of the First World War, humanitarian catastrophes abounded. The end of hostilities found Queensland-born, author, journalist and Quaker Relief Mission worker Joice Loch in Poland, assisting some …

I am convinced that if Franz Kafka were alive today, he would be writing a novel about a man who, during the pandemic, has the distinct misfortune to call a …

“It is not who we are when we read a … book that is most important, but who we are when we close it.” St Mark the Ascetic. Books are …