2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (453+ words) The noir label has been tenuously attached to all manner of crime fiction of late. But rather than being identified by a landscape (think rural or outback noir), or geography (Nordic noir), or even a setting (domestic noir), the real…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (46+ words) Reconnection (2024) by Marianna Kontoe - For Sale artsy.net "The female body is often treated as a ""text"" to be read, interpreted, and judged, with profound consequences for mental health, fostering feelings of inadequacy and fractured relationship with our own bodies....

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (156+ words) The Washington Post Valerie Stivers is a senior editor for UnHerd, from which this article was adapted. The actress Natalie Portman has always seemed like a person who wants to brand herself as smart and bookish — a trait that appears…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (974+ words) The Saturday Paper Article text size: This control adjusts article text size. For broader accessibility options, please use your browser or device text scaling settings. Two cyclists collide at an intersection and a man is thrown over the handlebars of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (63+ words) smh.com.au September marks the start of the bumper Christmas season, when publishers release a huge crop of books from big names and small. Here are 18 of the many new titles out this month, with loads more to look…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (181+ words) August 30, 2026 — 5:00am The ultimate argument of my PhD thesis was that the erotic can be an important site of power, one that has inspired revolutions, meaningfully critiqued corrupt authorities and even offered existential insight. If these are the historical origins of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (225+ words) August 28, 2026 — 11:00am Reading Rachel Cusk’s Life of M is a destabilising experience. The pages shadow you; the strange discomfort of their atmosphere lingers – as intended, surely, as most specifically intended. This is Cusk, after all, and her writing is no one’s…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (952+ words) Absolute Geeks TL;DR: Lanterns episode 2 successfully separates Hal and John without losing their magnetic dynamic, deepens Rushville’s mystery, delivers some unexpectedly sharp comedy, and finally begins opening the door to the cosmic Green Lantern mythology fans have been waiting…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (101+ words) SMH.com.au Given the contested response to Slumdog Millionaire (some thought that it exoticised poverty to entertain well-off audiences), Swarup addresses cultural appropriation and power imbalance directly here, through an uncomfortable encounter with a novelist. It’s one telling episode…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (616+ words) August 20, 2026 — 3:00pm It is 12 years since best-selling novelist Liane Moriarty thrilled readers with Big Little Lies, set in the fictional Sydney location of the seaside “paradise” of Periwee Peninsula. The bestselling novel was adapted with great success into a TV series....