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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Special correspondent in Canberra for The Saturday Paper Jason Koutsoukis on Labor’s war with its old guard. The government led by Anthony Albanese is a timid troupe of shivers looking for a spine to ...

Defamation lawyer at Good Company Law Hannah Marshall, on Bruce Lehrmann’s chance of appeal and what it means for Brittany Higgins. According to Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyer Zali Burrows, he is “arguably ...