Both reading and reviewing can be a pleasure when books make us feel better about our world. In this collection, I have ...

In Eurotrash, Christian Kracht delivers a surreal, darkly comic road novel charting a son’s journey with his mentally unwell ...

As grief, anxiety, and everyday struggles are increasingly pathologised, are we losing sight of what it means to be human? A ...

Pope Francis’s legacy is one of bold moral clarity: a Church allied with the poor, a planet in peril, and a global economy in ...

Sussan Ley inherits a fractured Liberal Party. To lead effectively, she must look beyond cosmetic changes and read the ...

As Australia emerges from its latest election, two pillars of public life — the Church and the Liberal Party — face ...

Elisabeth Hanscombe’s memoir traces a harrowing yet courageous journey through childhood neglect, family trauma, and ...

As extreme weather becomes more common in Australia, so too do deaths from heat and cold. And those who suffer most are the ...

When Donald Trump accepted a luxury jet from Qatar, many shrugged. It was just Trump being Trump. But his brazenness reveals ...

With Pope Leo XIV now leading the Church, there’s a quiet hopefulness in the air of renewal, of fresh energy. But the ...

Adam Bandt’s unexpected loss in Melbourne has sent shockwaves through the Greens’ ranks. Once poised for expansion, the party ...

Khmer New Year in April 1975 began with promise but ended in horror. Days later, the Khmer Rouge seized Phnom Penh, emptied ...