Incensed by efforts to reinvent former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, a former foreign correspondent sets the record straight ...

Apart from the scarcity of archival material, Gail Crowther’s challenge in writing Dorothy Parker in Hollywood was to ...

We are with her as she perches on the back of a seat (to get a better view of the training), delineating each of the boys on the team, attending to the coach as he urges them on, noticing the women ...

Books & arts A kind of social architecture Frances Flanagan 5 November 2024 The case for valuing and protecting “connective labour” in an increasingly automated and disconnected world ...

Kartlis Deda (or Mother of Georgia) is a twenty-metre statue of a woman holding a cup of wine in one hand and a sword in the ...

Donald Trump has yet to take office but he has already upended Canadian politics. His opening move came on 25 November, when he announced that on his first day in office he would impose 25 per cent ...

Should we have seen it coming? With the benefit of hindsight, Donald Trump’s victory seems to have been inevitable, and the excitement of journalists reporting a closely contested presidential ...

If song lyrics were treated as poetry, Taylor Swift would be the most popular poet in history. She even invokes the romantic image of the poète maudit — the cursed poet; the poet who is mad, bad and ...

The sudden collapse of the Assad regime is one of those “in retrospect it was inevitable but no one saw it coming” moments. Exactly where it leaves Syria is still unclear, so it is also one of those ...

Peter Dutton’s declaration that he will not stand next to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags turns the arc of Australian history off the path it seemed to be on thirty years ago. Then, in ...

National affairs Manufacturing’s security blanket Saul Eslake 26 August 2024 Labor’s Future Made in Australia policy risks entrenching opaque subsidies in a favoured sector ...