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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Approaching Reconciliation Week (27 May – 3 June) with the theme Bridging Now to Next, the nation is aware that there is still unfinished business on the national agenda when it comes to the due ...