Media stories about Alice Springs emphasise lawlessness and dysfunction, but on the ground it is a community let down by successive government failures “They did this, not us!” It’s what Aunty Pat ...

Malcolm Knox began his career as a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald, back in the 90s. Since then he has written more than a dozen books of nonfiction and has been publishing fiction since 2000 ...

Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, taking in theatre, visual art, books, dance, festivals and a YouTube miniaturist ...

Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, taking in theatre, visual art, books, dance, festivals and a YouTube miniaturist A courageous and honest examination of memory, loss and ...

A reflection on the process and burden of creating an imagined future during a time of climate crisis and existential dread ...

If the US vice-presidential debate was refreshingly civil, the candidates avoided much discussion of domestic and ...

Henry James is reputed to have said that when you tell a dream, you lose a reader. I’ve never been convinced of that view. But then, I grew up on the vision stories of the Old Testament: Jacob ...

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Welcome to the Monthly Book. Each month Ramona Koval chooses a book, provides reading notes and posts a video interview. The author of The Crimson Petal and the White returns with a new novel that is ...

Michael sits down with writer Rumaan Alam for a conversation about his latest novel, Entitlement, and they discuss class, desire, and the influence of Sylvia Plath. Malcolm Knox began his career as a ...

Five women artists come together to challenge the traditional art world’s understanding of “emotional” as female Art, of course, is language, but Mithu Sen is unusually mouthy for a visual artist.

The new Pacific security pact reflects America’s influence, not Australia’s ...