Solitude was a Romantic ideal. What separates it from loneliness? In this chapter, Alberti explores the two ideas through the ...

By placing a marginal character in the classic modern novel, Mrs Dalloway, at its centre, Michelle Cahill’s metafictional ...

Jennifer Mills is one of Australia’s most innovative writers; in Josephine Rowe’s words, “a deeply empathetic genius”. Salvage is Mills’ sixth book and its speculative fiction narrative of near-future ...

Looking back over the lives of women in Australian writing between the gaining of national suffrage in 1902 and the second ...

The book pushes back on stereotypes of Muslim women being oppressed and subservient, and instead highlights stories of ...

The writer on the necessity of humour amid bleakness, how she likes to challenge her readers, and misogyny in the North ...

Colm Tóibín, Alan Hollinghurst, Olivia Laing Seán Hewitt and more reflect on White’s writing, sexual freedom and humour ...

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

The RCB stadium stampede exposes the convergence of crowd psychology, state failure, caste-coded fandom, and the violent spectacle of cricket in a country where identity and sport merge.

The book, thus, not only looks at the past through its creative web of connections, which is both deep and surprisingly light ...

William F. Buckley Jr. was the erudite heart of American conservatism. But the political vision that he helped forge was—and ...

Ernaux finds the act of writing on the photographs in relation to the fleeting, sexual memory associated with them ‘a sort of ...