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 ...

What do the passions and professional triumphs of Glyn Davis, the intellectual running the prime minister’s office, tell us about this government’s approach to the tasks at hand?

Senior reporter for The Saturday Paper Rick Morton on the dumping of the proposed robodebt investigation and what it means for the future of the NACC. In deciding not to probe robodebt, the National ...

The Irish author’s tendency to blend literary and popular fiction is again evident in her latest novel, another tidy love story ...

Michael sits down with award-winning Australian writer Robbie Arnott to discuss his new novel, Dusk, which explores loss and redemption and survival in Tasmania’s high country. As if finding the time ...

It is more or less impossible to imagine Australian literature of the past half century without Tim Winton. It was 1981 when his debut novel An Open Swimmer won the Vogel prize. Tim was a 21-year-old ...

What do the passions and professional triumphs of Glyn Davis, the intellectual running the prime minister’s office, tell us about this government’s approach to the tasks at hand?

Media stories about Alice Springs emphasise lawlessness and dysfunction, but on the ground it is a community let down by successive government failures The national prison newspaper ‘About Time’ aims ...

How does a new parent avoid passing on the conspiracy of silence about the big things in life?

Should Sydney’s Qtopia centre, which memorialises prejudice and violence against queer and trans people, accept philanthropy from the Murdochs? On a chilly September evening at the new Loading Dock ...

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