Books & arts Ship me somewhere east of Suez… Robin Jeffrey 16 October 2025 An impulse to recover stories from before India’s 1947 Partition yields a sweeping account of the aftermath of empire ...

Sovereign is based on the true story of a deadly encounter between Jerry and Joseph Kane, a father and son, and West Memphis police officers in Arkansas. Swegal’s film concludes more or less where the ...

“I cannot live with You —” goes Emily Dickinson’s poem. “It would be Life —/ And Life is over there —/ Behind the Shelf.” Once upon a time many Australian homes had the books of Patrick White out ...

Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You begins with the tightest of closeups of one of Rose Byrne’s eyeballs. And that relentless sense of proximity never really lets up; this is a film that ...

Under Donald Trump, the United States no longer operates as a serious nation. Being serious about power and interests should be the simple first step of any nation, especially a superpower. A serious ...

Books & arts Australia in the world Graeme Dobell 8 August 2025 An indispensable seventy-year record of foreign policy reaches its thirteenth volume Books & arts How Australia does security and ...

Throughout my career as a general practitioner and therapist, the doctor–patient relationship has been a source of both anxiety and immense satisfaction. And when I forayed into fiction writing, my ...

Albania is one of those Balkan countries too easily misunderstood, overlooked or stereotyped, with a history most conveniently described as “complicated.” One person who has helped the wider world get ...

Books & arts Map-making and myth-busting Zora Simic 14 December 2024 Joni Mitchell’s latest biographer creates a new geography of her work and influence Books & arts Baked into our bricks Zora Simic 7 ...