Both reading and reviewing can be a pleasure when books make us feel better about our world. In this collection, I have ...

In Eurotrash, Christian Kracht delivers a surreal, darkly comic road novel charting a son’s journey with his mentally unwell ...

Elisabeth Hanscombe’s memoir traces a harrowing yet courageous journey through childhood neglect, family trauma, and ...

Pope Francis’s legacy is one of bold moral clarity: a Church allied with the poor, a planet in peril, and a global economy in ...

As grief, anxiety, and everyday struggles are increasingly pathologised, are we losing sight of what it means to be human? A ...

As Australia emerges from its latest election, two pillars of public life — the Church and the Liberal Party — face ...

Sussan Ley inherits a fractured Liberal Party. To lead effectively, she must look beyond cosmetic changes and read the ...

When Donald Trump accepted a luxury jet from Qatar, many shrugged. It was just Trump being Trump. But his brazenness reveals ...

As extreme weather becomes more common in Australia, so too do deaths from heat and cold. And those who suffer most are the ...

Khmer New Year, celebrated from 13 to 15 April, is usually a time of joy. But in 1975, it marked the beginning of one of the darkest chapters in Cambodia’s history. That year’s celebration coincided ...

Just the other week, April 23 was Shakespeare’s birthday (or at least the day we celebrate it, because it was the day in 1564 when he was baptised). In national terms it was just before Anzac Day and ...

That name may mean absolutely nothing to you, but the fact he lived that long is no mean feat. Molland was the last remaining member of Badfinger, a Welsh group that was the first band signed to The ...