Amor Towles' novel is a wonder, an addiction, a philosophical ramble and, most of all, a fable that addresses the universal desire for a moral compass, which it offers as one founded on proper upbringing, on civility, on honesty and on due respect for what has gone before

Performing once more in Sydney this year has been a […]

Any advances in life I have made since a kindly teacher took my diction in hand owe much to my 'improved' accent. For what it’s worth, my conclusion about Eliza Doolittle’s social mobility (and my own) is that it is all about picking up cues.  Languages and cultures are both learned and changeable

The full force of 'cultural appropriation' came down upon Elizabeth Durack when the story of her Aboriginal alter ego emerged much sooner than she would have wished. It was who and what the artist was that mattered to her attackers, not the wonderful works themselves