Jason Molina was raised in a trailer park on the edge of Lake Erie, and he remembered icy rain, low granite skies and his ...

Richard Osman sits down with Michael to discuss his new novel, We Solve Murders. As if finding the time to read wasn’t hard enough, working out what book to pick up next can be a nightmare. In ...

This year’s Booker longlist includes Rachel Kushner’s sharply funny activist thriller and Percival Everett’s revisit of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ from the slave Jim’s perspective The Australian-born social ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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How the cashless society and bureaucratic management of public spaces have cleared the streets of buskers As I’m walking through the The Rocks Market in Sydney, I find myself thinking that this would ...

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.

Alice Springs is littered with “For Sale” signs as those who can afford it are packing up and leaving. Punitive government curfews made daily life more challenging, and families struggle to see a ...