Her first, Our Sandhill Country, had appeared in 1933 just as curiosity was building among Australians wanting to learn more ...

Language watchers will have noticed the rise of therapy-speak. Boundaries must be maintained, space must be held, gaslighting must be called out, and triggers, traumas and diagnostic terms abound. The ...

Whether it was intended or not, the latest book by the accomplished Australian journalist and author George Megalogenis was published not long after census night last month. As I thumbed through my ...

Mentioning Australia’s history of literary censorship to people of a younger vintage often causes befuddlement followed by amazement. In its heyday, our censorship system was a nation-building ...

Cultural Marxism has been around as a concept since the 1930s, but only in the past couple of decades has it taken off as a commonly used pejorative against the left in the United States and elsewhere ...

Few things are more intuitive about the smartphone era than the fact that devices have torpedoed our interest in reading and dragged down the status that books and their authors once seemed to enjoy.

“One Nation surges ahead of Labor as budget flops,” said the Australian Financial Review’s headline on Monday, and it was mostly correct. The bit about the budget is old news and entirely true. But it ...

When the current Pope Leo XIV ascended to office, he took his Papal name in homage to Pope Leo XIII, who presided over the Catholic Church in another time of great economic and social disruption at ...

This year marks the two hundredth anniversary of the State Library of New South Wales, and to celebrate the library is offering a year-long program of events, exhibitions, performances, digital ...

I tried calling Susan just before we slipped our moorings for the ride to Samarai Island, an abandoned entrepôt in the southwest of what once was British New Guinea. I wanted to let her know I was on ...

I wrote “The Preservation of Pure Learning” — my summing up of the state of Australian universities after more than a year of Covid-19 — from a cabin in a holiday park in Cudmirrah, a village wedged ...