Low-budget Australian New Wave throwbacks The Surfer and Dangerous Animals deliver dark stories of violent parochialism on ...

Where a perpetually bloated and red-faced Jax spent most of the first season berating Brittany for drinking too much, he’s ...

Accurate or not, Hirst’s words were powerful. They still are. They speak of a nation still looking for its “republican moment”, and still seeking new symbols, songs and laws, to replace an old ...

David Baker is a history and science writer who holds the world’s first PhD in Big History. He wrote the YouTube series Crash Course Big History, hosted by John and Hank Green.

Jane Rawson is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist who usually writes about the environment. Her most recent book is From the Wreck.

Alzheimer’s drives the narrative of Rachel Khong’s ‘Goodbye, Vitamin’ but it isn’t the novel’s focus ...

A Bellini Madonna and some lines from Nabokov symbolise the broadcaster’s dedication to the transcendence and beauty of art “I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, ...

Christopher Pyne’s face has turned pink. That thin voice – part aristocrat, part magpie – is straining in its upper register. “Anzac Day is critical to understanding the nature of the Australian ...

A piece of motherly prompting, at first dismissed but later embraced, helped in the author’s life and her writing I was a shy teenager and Mum had to propel me out the door to the few social ...