In Mine, Adam Ouston reveals the contradictions between Tasmania’s conception of itself and its history of human and environmental devastation.

Historian Dominic Kelly illuminates some of the disputes and controversies navigated by Quadrant magazine during the Cold War era.

Confronting violence and intense sex scenes permeate Marlon James’s latest, lengthy novel, a compelling look at homophobia in Jamaica

James Ley surveys the career and work of Russian avant-garde satirist, Vladimir Sorokin. With a Sadean virtuosity of violence and cruelty, Sorokin’s novels expose the complicity of Russian literature ...

James Ley surveys the career and work of Russian avant-garde satirist, Vladimir Sorokin. With a Sadean virtuosity of violence and cruelty, Sorokin’s novels expose the complicity of Russian literature ...

James Ley surveys the career and work of Russian avant-garde satirist, Vladimir Sorokin. With a Sadean virtuosity of violence and cruelty, Sorokin’s novels expose the complicity of Russian literature ...

James Ley surveys the career and work of Russian avant-garde satirist, Vladimir Sorokin. With a Sadean virtuosity of violence and cruelty, Sorokin’s novels expose the complicity of Russian literature ...

Lesbia Harford knew she would die young but became a revolutionary all the same. She loved both women and men, capturing the dizzying confusion of a violent time.

She’s been called one of Australia’s greatest poets by Les Murray. Who is Lesbia Harford?

Almost all major human rights organisations agree the destruction of Gaza meets the legal definition of genocide. Yet liberal news outlets still do not use the word.

Ouston’s second novel follows a poet who is trapped in an abandoned mine in Tasmania while searching for inspiration for his ‘last great work’

How did Cultural Marxism become the right’s all-purpose pejorative?

David Malouf declared John Forbes ‘the most elegant and inventive poet’ of his generation.

A poet and environmental activist experiences a fever dream of Tasmania’s landscape and mining history in Adam Ouston’s brilliantly imagined novel

Geetanjali Shree’s writing is an audacious blend of literary Hindi and an array of local dialects.

We have built our cities on the quiet delusion that a turning tap is an infinite resource. We plant green lawns around our houses and water public parks in the middle of summer. As long as the water f...

Five Bells is an elegy for Kenneth Slessor’s friend Joe Lynch, an artist who drowned in Sydney Harbour in 1927 after falling from a ferry.

Fierceland, the energetic, adventurous winner of this year’s Miles Franklin, asks what it means to inherit a world already being dismantled.

The most authentic thing about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is its densely braided narrative, but its tormented hero sounds like the heroes of Christopher Nolan movies.

A poet and environmental activist experiences a fever dream of Tasmania’s landscape and mining history in Adam Ouston’s brilliantly imagined novel

Anyone who has even a passing familiarity with the ideas of Theodor Adorno will know he was an antagonist of what he called the ‘culture industry’. In Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), co-written wit...

The Saturday Paper is a quality weekly newspaper, dedicated to narrative long-form journalism.

Is Christopher Nolan’s adaptation a definitive film version of Homer’s Odyssey? No, it isn’t. In fact, it can’t be.

Anthony Albanese has made a spirited defence of artists’ rights in the AI age. But while data centres are getting concrete support, creators are not.

Thanks to rushed deadlines, financial pressure and overworked staff, titles are going to market before they’re ready – and then sliding from view immediately

Almost all major human rights organisations agree the destruction of Gaza meets the legal definition of genocide. Yet liberal news outlets still do not use the word.

These novels look inwards and backwards, explaining our failed liberation and saving what they can as the world hurtles to oblivion.

Amanda Lohrey’s Capture takes place in weird shiny rooms, where humans are studied with curiosity and partial incomprehension.

Sydney Morning Herald removes piece by Cath Ellis, despite Western Sydney University saying her use of AI was ‘appropriate’

Western Sydney University has acknowledged that the opinion piece, published by this masthead, was AI-generated using the author’s previous work.

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Colm Tóibín created some ripples last year when he remarked in an interview that artificial intelligence had doomed creative writing. He dismissed as ‘rubbish’ the idea that a computer could never rep...

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...

The Miles Franklin winner’s plot teeters on the edge of profound silliness, but it’s also a vehicle for making meaning of our lived experiences – and those of others