The obituaries for former Treasury secretary and National Party senator John Stone — who died last week at the age of ninety-six — have so far focused on his thirty-year career as a public servant, ...

Keen as mustard. The murder occurs on the first formal day of the congress, that day of 42.5C heat. A party is held at 3.30pm in the gardens of Parliament House. Marquees are set up among the young ...

In such times, it is useful to consider not just How Tyrants Fall, to quote the title of Marcel Dirsus’s excellent new book, but also the different forms that resistance can take. Jeffrey ...

This year the fourth of July marked more than the celebration of America’s Independence Day: it was the day Donald Trump signed his One Big Beautiful Bill Act (now referred to as OBBBA) into law.

It’s far less common, though, for a coroner to devote as much attention as Justice Elisabeth Armitage did to the background ...

Zachary Leader, an American literary scholar and biographer of Kingsley Amis and Saul Bellow, is another admirer of Ellmann’s big book. “An extraordinary achievement,” he calls it. Now, in Ellmann’s ...

So begins Robert Garland’s rollicking excursion into death in the ancient world. In What to Expect When You’re Dead, the professor emeritus of classics at New York’s Colgate University ranges over 100 ...

But there’s something else to consider. Like its eponymous subject, a novel written by two sisters is, in its way, groundbreaking. But is it really a novel? When I started writing them, novels were ...

Though the Liberal Party’s “women problem” might seem perennial, the conservative side of Australian politics could once boast of being at the vanguard of female parliamentary representation — with ...

Right now, according to British political theorist Jonathan White, the future seems very close. Our time horizon is closing in. Crises press in on us, shadowing contemporary politics with an “air of ...

Too often tales of exploration are told only from a whitefella perspective. But as this story of a roving zoologist reveals, “the observed” were observing closely when the American–Australian ...

The Atlantic ’s Adam Serwer calls it “a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science.” Donald Trump’s administration seems intent on dismantling the ...