Arts & Culture
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Why Trent Dalton needed to ‘run a mile’ from his hit debut novel
It seems many aren’t quite ready to let go of Dalton’s heartfelt semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale, which became Australia’s fastest-selling debut…
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How Spanish writer’s novel about Eta terror campaign became global hit
Towards the end of Patria, Fernando Aramburu’s sprawling examination of the human cost of Eta’s four-decade-long terror campaign, a character…
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Hilary Mantel ‘naturally disappointed’ by Booker Prize miss
The British novelist was a favourite to win the major literary prize – which she claimed with Wolf Hall in…
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A 5-Decade-Long Friendship That Began With A Phone Call
It argued that the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause applied to women. Nina Totenberg npr I didn’t understand some of…
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, US Supreme Court Justice, dies aged 87
Justice Ginsburg died at her home in Washington DC surrounded by her family on Friday evening (local time), according to…
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From B student to billionaire: the man who built Netflix
Dispassionate sackings. Konrad Marshall Good Weekend in The Age “Sunshining” failure. Reed Hastings, the man who built the world’s most…
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George Bizos laid to rest: ‘His life was so large’
Bizos, who died last week aged 92, was remembered as a man of humility, integrity, and above all as an…
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Archibald prize 2020: first-time entrant Meyne Wyatt wins packing room prize for self-portrait
First-time Archibald prize entrant Meyne Wyatt has broken new ground to win the packing room prize for his self-portrait. Australian…
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Guide to the Classics: The Secret Garden and the healing power of nature
First published in 1911, after being serialised in The American Magazine, it was dismissed by one critic at the time…
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Charles Lloyd: Sharing a gift with a Greek goddess
Always a dreamer, he determined that he would find this beautiful woman and take her away from all the misery…
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Rio Tinto CEO and senior executives resign from company after Juukan Gorge debacle
The Rio Tinto chief executive, Jean-Sébastien Jacques, and two other senior executives are leaving the global miner after its board bowed…
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Millions of books, monkeys and an orchestra — the story of EW Cole and his Book Arcade
It was a huge and peculiar bookstore — though to simply call it that doesn’t feel like enough. Authors ABC…
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George Bizos, Anti-Apartheid Lawyer Who Defended Mandela, Dies at 92
George Bizos, who fled the Nazi occupation of his native Greece at age 13 to become one of South Africa’s…
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Screaming, growling asylum seeker opera wins top art music honour
Speechless, by Melbourne-based composer Cat Hope, was inspired by the Human Rights Commission 2014 report The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry…
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Human rights advocate George Bizos has died
Renowned human rights advocate George Bizos has died aged 92. He died late this afternoon. The Citizen Bizos celebrated his…
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Eyes on the world – drones change our point of view and our truths
Even more profoundly, drones have transformed how we witness the world: how we decide the events that matter and create…
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