What kind of mandate does a landslide election victory earn when the nation’s vote is paradoxically almost evenly divided?

A reflection on how early-life trauma might not just prepare us to cope with danger and anguish but attract us to it ...

Jonathan Safran Foer is a talented novelist with a gift for writing amusingly about serious issues. In Everything Is Illuminated (2003), he created a Ukrainian narrator, Alex, who describes in ...

A new album of beautifully tender, mildly psychedelic lo-fi songs from the Newcastle musician also known as Romy Church The codified e4444e shortens himself to e4 for brevity but in real life he is ...

The posthumous collection of psychiatric summaries regarding the American writer’s tragically doomed daughter that should never have been published It’s not a rare species, the New York Times ...

Musician Warren Ellis visits the animal sanctuary he helped establish in southern Sumatra for a documentary directed by Justin Kurzel Looking through the trees and across the narrow brown river, a ...

The late Paul Reubens opens up about his life as a queer radical artist, and Michelle Williams stars in the true story of an end-of-life sexual quest “I know you are, but what am I?” So goes one of ...

Ken Haley is a Walkley Award–winning journalist and author of The One That Got Away: Travelling in the Time of Covid.

The 70-year-old author revisits the south-west Victorian town where, half a century ago, he was a cub reporter at The ...

Looking for dinosaur bones with the volunteer whose prehistoric amphibian discovery became Victoria’s fossil emblem A day before roads clogged with Labour Day long weekenders, I travelled to an ...