America’s stunning 2016 presidential election result, which reportedly shocked even winner Donald Trump, elicited from the ...

Richard Brautigan’s 1971 novel The Abortion tells the story of a librarian in charge of a library with a voracious and ...

Almost every presidential election since 1980 has had a double-digit gender gap. What do the polls suggest about next week’s?

We had one mango, we cut it open and it was rotten,” a Colombo tuk-tuk driver remarked of Sri Lanka’s traditionally dominant ...

Triple-tested in its own kitchen, the Women’s Weekly’s recipes helped shape Australian tastes. But it had its rivals ...

I’m sure it’s the same with all creative artists — and anything can spark one: a poem, a painting, a film, a chance remark, ...

I write this on my return from Carlton’s Cinema Nova, where Paul Barclay, presenter of Radio National’s Big Ideas, was discussing a recently published memoir, A Season of Death, with Michelle Lesh and ...

Reading the well-known English satirist Craig Brown’s latest book, A Voyage around the Queen, I’m struck again by how, in terms of symbolic theatre, republics pale beside the multifaceted events and ...

The fascinating story of how two new books — Sandhill Girl and Enlightened Aboriginal Futures — came into being centres on three people: the Lutheran missionary F.W. Albrecht, his former student Lorna ...