by Chris Maher | Mar 21, 2020 | Travel
By Chris Maher [This story originally appeared in The Australian newspaper.] THE packed stadium pulses like the insides of a gigantic red-and-blue anemone. Down on the sparkling green pitch, a lone figure in orange awaits his fate, like a man forcing his eyes open in...
by Chris Maher | Mar 21, 2020 | Travel
By Chris Maher [This story first appeared in the News Limited Sundays] My sister had once stayed in a Roman convent and extolled its virtues: cheap, atmospheric and convenient. So when I found myself heading for a mini stopover in Rome, it seemed the perfect way to...
by Chris Maher | Mar 21, 2020 | Travel
By Chris Maher [This story was syndicated in News Corp newspapers.] WHEN we were just a twosome, my wife and I travelled on a whim, wandering Grecian ruins or forging Sulawesi jungles at a moment’s notice. But once kids arrived, it all seemed too hard, too risky...
by Chris Maher | Mar 21, 2020 | Travel
By Chris Maher [This story first appeared in The Australian] WE arrive at Apia airport and cut across the main island of Upolu, travelling for about 40 minutes along narrow, jungle-lined roads to the Sa’Moana Resort on the south coast. It’s a smoky Sunday...
by Chris Maher | Mar 21, 2020 | Book reviews
Reviewed by Chris Maher Review at Newtown Review of Books Cixin Liu takes the tropes of science fiction and looks at them with new eyes in this ambitious and imaginative series. ‘Hard’ science fiction doesn’t have to be hard to read, and even though Cixin Liu admits...
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