The March/April issue of Odyssey Magazine is out now, which includes an interview I did with Christos Tsiolkas about his new novel Dead Europe.

Sydney’s philosophical taverna
Australia’s olympics of the mind
KATHRYN KOROMILAS  
FOR the classical Greeks a notion of health meant both an active mind and an athletic body. During the 2000 Olympics, thousands of bodies spilled into the city of Sydney all trim, taut and terrific - the athletic ideal. The body, its beautification, its youthfulness, its athleticism […]

Searching for Harold Pinter in Athens
KATHRYN KOROMILAS  
  
Harold Pinter was in Athens to attend performances of two of his plays ‘Ashes to Ashes’ at the Nea Skini Theatre on Saturday and ‘No Man’s Land’ at the Aplo Theatro on Sunday.  
HAROLD Pinter was in town this weekend. A select group of Athenians - members of […]

A Heller of an ending
KATHRYN KOROMILAS  
IT’S A bit of a Catch-22 situation isn’t it? You are an ageing author of universal acclaim, all because of one brilliant novel you wrote years ago, but you can’t quite seem to match that prodigal achievement with anything else you’ve since written - and you really want to […]

Malcolm Bradbury: Novels 
From his intro (2000) to Murdoch’s The Philosopher’s Pupil:
[In the 1950s] Novels had meanings. Novelists had minds and consciences, not personalities, and a vision of life, not a life-style.
The novel could keep company with significant matters: the labyrinths of freedom, the nature of consciousness, the problems of perception and of picturing consciousness and […]

Equine galore
Discover untamed rural Greece on horse back through agro tourism
Ancient Greek mythology spoke of centaurs wild beasts that were half-man and half-horse and roamed the mountains of Arcadia and Thessaly. And Homer wrote of the notorious Trojan Horse, one of mankind’s most famous instances of subversion. Contemporary Greek horses may be less famous and […]

Verdant mystique
In recent years, the idea of Samothraki as the Greek island destination with a difference has been getting around by word of mouth. Those who hail the merits of this north Aegean island speak whimsically of its singular mountain terrain, its abundance of crystal clear water, its archaeological finds along with an intangible mysticism […]

Barren beauty
Kythnos isle’s mythical waters, miraculous icons and solitary beach trees
It has been said that Kythnos is the least interesting of the islands that make up the Cyclades. Maybe it’s the peculiar barrenness that makes it so. Whatever the reason, the isle situated between Kea and Serifos generally attracts fewer visitors than its more popular […]

Durrell Island
The Durrell brothers spent happy years on Corfu and now a school offers learning holidays in their name.
“You have two birth-places,” wrote Lawrence Durrell, the Anglo-Irish author best known for his experimental novel, The Alexandria Quartet, “you have the place where you were really born and then you have a place of predilection […]

10 TIPS ON HOW TO SURVIVE ATHENS
by Kathryn Koromilas
Chaos has ruled Athens since ancient times and with a record number of visitors set to arrive this August the god of disorder will be hovering in the wings. Want to survive your visit like an authentic Athenian? Stick to these insider basics:
1. Decoding chaos
With a map […]