In Andrea Goldsmith’s ninth and latest novel, The Buried Life, she unpicks the relationships between people and the undercurrents of doubt and faith that define a life. Michael chats with Rachel about ...

Associate professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University David Szakonyi, on what Vladimir Putin is offering Trump, and the figures behind the Russian deal.

National correspondent for The Saturday Paper Mike Seccombe, on what is happening in Tasmanian waters – and how it will impact the upcoming election. Warmer waters, disease and antibiotics have pushed ...

A new production of ‘Macbeth’ starring David Tennant is an opportunity to consider if it might provide the quintessential tragic role How real is the Macbeth curse, which makes the mere articulation ...

We all believe in democracy, right? The contest of ideas. The right to vote. At the very least, the right to be sufficiently informed to cast a responsive vote. Old-school journalists such as myself – ...

Next month, it will be 30 years since the publication of Helen Garner’s The First Stone. Searching, honest and incendiary, the book represents Garner’s grappling with sexual harassment that occurred ...

The Oscar-nominated postwar story of an autocratic immigrant architect in the US unwittingly mirrors Donald Trump’s edict on public buildings In December 2020, during the final days of his first ...

The Hungarian-English novelist’s latest is another tale of human failure, managing to turn his characters’ inability to feel into something affecting Szalay’s technical achievement is to make all this ...

Poets, like mathematicians, can burst fully formed into song (or into differential calculus) in late adolescence. Novelists tend to take further study in the school of life. Even coming-of-age novels ...

Remembering lessons in the art of derailing and the power of obfuscation at a Year 10 Model United Nations day In 2007, the Year 10 students at my school in Newcastle were invited to apply for two ...

An exhibition of the Ethiopian-American painter’s works built upon obscured news media suggests even abstract art must be connected to the world In the back pages of the handsome catalogue ...

Melbourne’s on-again off-again embrace of street art is now tested by the trial of the alleged artist behind ‘Pam the Bird’ ...