As the long summer holidays draw to a close, Australia’s malcontents have roused themselves for their annual attack on Australia’s…

I was intrigued by shadow treasurer Angus Taylor’s speech in London a few weeks ago at a conference of the…

What is heating the oceans isn’t human CO2 emissions

Qatar is not an honest broker in the Middle East

Albanese should give Ukraine our retired army helicopters not bury them

Don’t raze Australian culture in the name of progress

There is much to jettison in the Anglosphere

No charge, Albo

Expect more bullying and aggression from the CCP

International organisations are exemplars of political correctness

The fabrication of Aboriginal history

The people of these islands have long been famous for their drinking. A Frenchman writing in the 12th century described…

For the bands playing at Eric’s, the celebrated Merseyside punk club of the late 1970s, even to own a Beatles record was considered embarrassing

Covid-19 proved devastating to our self-confidence and faith in others, says Daniel Freeman, who describes the ‘corrosive’ effects of mistrust on individuals and society

Exploring the new biology, Philip Hall explains how genes do not in fact determine our fate, and how cells can be reprogrammed to perform all kinds of new tasks

In his history of male-male sexual relations, Noel Malcolm describes how a man in Renaissance Italy would seduce a boy in the street by seizing his hat and holding it ransom

Gill Johnson recalls the glorious months she once spent in the ‘gilded labyrinth’ of a Venetian palazzo, employed as an English tutor to an aristocratic Italian family

Set in the Appalachian Mountains, the novel centres around a family struggling to survive domestic abuse and abandonment in the aftermath of the American civil war

Marooned in Manhattan with a stoned student and precocious parrot for company, our elderly narrator despairs of the novel’s future when life is so much stranger than fiction

The stories of two tragic mothers are interwoven in a haunting novel revolving around war, displacement, despair and the loss of children

Peter Biskind describes how a once despised medium became the definitive narrative art form of the early 21st century. But has it now passed its peak?

A lonely teenager on holiday in Italy befriends his grandparents’ elderly gardener and slowly coaxes out his painful memories of betrayals and reprisals during the war

It’s the time of year when there’s a lot of talk about films and catching up with films. Along with…

Ah, summer. The sap is rising, and so are anxiety levels on either side of the Tasman as editors cast…

They keep inventing new, so-called ‘phobias’, don’t they? The latest is ‘fatphobia’. A new book has been published called Unshrinking:…