One of the great lines from Monty Python film Life of Brian comes in a scene where the revolutionary Peoples’ Front of Judea is planning an insurrection against the Romans. …

There are places all over the Mediterranean that have seen better days. I think of Levissi in south-western Turkey. Nearby, there is what once was a magnificent town that Greeks …

People still talk about the Greek famine of 1941. In my novel “Someone Else’s War” and in its play adaptation, I wrote about how my grandmother Olga, who worked for …

Robert Dessaix is one of the great Australian writers. His travel books are masterpieces of warm and inclusive observation. His 2008 book Arabesques is, like the works of the great …