Special correspondent for The Saturday Paper Jason Koutsoukis, on why the national strategy on counterterrorism has collapsed – and what it means for our safety. There’s a greater than 50 per cent ...

If the US vice-presidential debate was refreshingly civil, the candidates avoided much discussion of domestic and international affairs Four weeks from the United States presidential election, ...

ABC journalist and host of the Global Roaming podcast Geraldine Doogue, on how the two candidates are using their roots to appeal to voters in very different ways. As much as they would hate to admit ...

Melanie Cheng’s newest novel, The Burrow, stole an evening of my life. I was already a fan of her first two books – short story collection Australia Day and her first novel, Room for a Stranger. She’s ...

Economist and contributor to The Saturday Paper Peter Martin, on the “illusory” discounts and how a Cadbury Caramello Koala helped fuel the outrage. There are hundreds of angry posts on X, TikTok and ...

Henry James is reputed to have said that when you tell a dream, you lose a reader. I’ve never been convinced of that view. But then, I grew up on the vision stories of the Old Testament: Jacob ...

Five women artists come together to challenge the traditional art world’s understanding of “emotional” as female Art, of course, is language, but Mithu Sen is unusually mouthy for a visual artist.

A postcard from the Toronto International Film Festival, where an adaptation of the author’s novel ‘Addition’ is premiered It’s almost like being in my teens again, when the lights dim and a hush ...

An Iranian film about a widow defying post-revolution restrictions and finding love, and Demi Moore in a body-horror film aimed at unreal beauty standards “When will they leave us be?” asks Mahin ...

The English novelist’s latest dark masterpiece begins with the talented, queer, working-class protagonist invited to his sponsors’ country estate Dave Win, the half-Burmese, working-class protagonist ...

Sarah Manguso’s novel about a woman staying in a terrible relationship seems resigned to male dominance, while Vigdis Hjorth’s gets at more complex realities Novel one: Jane is a writer; John, an ...