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 ...

Michael sits down with Attica’s head chef to discuss his new memoir, Uses for Obsession. As if finding the time to read wasn’t hard enough, working out what book to pick up next can be a nightmare. In ...

Prime Minister Albanese’s reaction to the accusation of receiving special treatment is more troubling than the allegation ...

What we have lost since the internet’s libertarian pioneers failed to foresee the dangers of life on the unregulated digital frontier ...

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

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?

Violence against women is a national crisis and, while there has been progress, we must not underestimate the need for greater action ...

Treating all rats and mice like invasive pests has led to extinctions of native rodents important to our ecosystems ...

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 ...

Thank you. Thank you. Thank… et cetera. Thank you to all those good people who had hope and worked their Democratic butts off in this campaign. Democratic and, in some instances, Republican butts off.

As a byelection drew the nation’s focus to the scrappy suburb of the author’s childhood, a visit revealed the damage wrought by the housing crisis ‘The Dismissal’: An all-singing, all-dancing ...