MICHAEL LEON

Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act: A Way of Being (2023) is less of a prescriptive “how-to” manual and more a philosophical meditation on what c...

Robert Hughes ‘The Fatal Shore’ remains the definitive account of Australia’s convict beginnings. With prose as vivid as any novel, Hughes r...

  Rebecca L. Spang’s The Invention of the Restaurant isn’t just about restaurants—it’s about what happens when food stops being survival and...

  Anne Petrie’s The Story of Kent is a richly illustrated history that explores life in Kent from the earliest times to the modern day. The ...

  Geoffrey Sherington’s Australia’s Immigrants is a clear, concise, and well-researched exploration of one of the most defining aspects of m...

  Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts is a masterclass in the genre. Written decades after the journey it chronicles—his walk across Euro...

  In AI and Writing, Sid Dobrin offers an insightful and thought-provoking examination of how Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is ...