Rollicking history of hosties
The advent of air travel opened up work opportunities for women, but the industry was not without challenges.
Books
Pell lawyers lobbied prosecutor
Lawyers representing Cardinal George Pell penned “robust” letters ahead of the release of a new book about his life.
Politics, philosophy, murder
In 1980 French philosopher Roland Barthes was mowed down by a van. A random accident, or something more sinister?
Beyond nappies and tantrums
Parenting can be hard labour but even tougher is the philosophical question it makes us consider.
The spook who loved animals
Maxwell Knight was a legendary spy-runner who became a TV celebrity associated with wildlife shows.
Relationship dynamics
Melanie Joosten’s second novel Gravity Well examines the simultaneous push-pull influence of intimate relationships.
From behind an Arab veil
Author Amal Awad is out “disrupt the Western image of the Arab woman”.
Crossing the Ford
Richard Ford’s memoir of his parents draws a hard line between memory and analysis.
Legging it
Author, literary agent and filmmaker Robin Dalton is a living advertisement for an engaged life.
Black man’s burden
Political incorrectness is Man Booker Prize winner Paul Beatty’s stock-in-trade but he’s making no apologies.
The bear in there
Original Winnie the Pooh sketches by Ernest H. Shepard are on display at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
The power of two
The extraordinary intellectual friendship between Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman helped change the way we think.
Diverse voices
Indigenous literature is an unfolding narrative.
French PM hit for ‘sexist’ novel
French PM Edouard Philippe has drawn feminist ire for using sexist stereotypes in a racy thriller he wrote.
Jettisoning books reveals volumes
They say when an old man dies, a great library burns to the ground. Got a match?
Q&A: Ian Rankin, crime writer
‘I was trying to write the great Edinburgh novel.’
Love in a time of war
Claire Corbett’s second novel seems to depict a dystopian near-future, but Watch Over Me is set in the present.
Did Austen have an Aussie Darcy?
Author Wal Walker makes the groundbreaking claim that a colonial surgeon stole Jane Austen’s heart.
One long sweet lie
In an Australian exclusive, read one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s long lost short stories from a new collection.
Horrors on detective trail
Each is a middle-aged detective; each is a finger short. And relations with colleagues and loved ones are vexed.
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