“I bear a crushing burden,” writes Caroline Darian in the opening pages of her searing memoir, I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again. “I am the child...
“What a crowd,” the elderly Brahmin said. “This year’s arrangements are excellent… yet, look at the chaos.” He was not referring to the havoc last Tuesday...
Before the election, I wrote a whole bunch of posts for my newsletter Noahpinion about why it was a bad idea to elect Donald Trump. But...
The idea of the “Australian Briton” was central to the nation’s identity for nearly 200 years, joining Australian life to a love of Britain and its...
“Folk” is the most slippery label in music, whether as a prefix to “song” or “singer.” It has long been used interchangeably with “traditional” to denote...
Once upon a time the novel was — well, novel. Some locate its beginnings in English in picaresque fictions such as George Gascoigne’s The Adventures of...
Is Halina Reijn’s Babygirl a dark erotic thriller or a flipped #MeToo drama? Or a morality tale about the dangers of sexual desire? At various points...
In the national gloom of Gradgrind schooling policy, South Australia is a flicker of light. The Malinauskas government came to office in 2022 promising a “we’re...
When he was invited to work for Gough Whitlam in September 1967, Race Mathews was thirty-two, a teacher and Education Department speech therapist, married with three...
Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz is a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina through her mother, whose father was Lumbee and mother German. Her own father...