Stephen Romei

Stephen Romei writes on books and films. He was formerly literary editor at The Australian and The Weekend Australian.

Relationships, family and culture are at the heart of the poems by indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann.

Australian poetry: Ali Jane Smith

Once the domain of kids’ films, 3-D is being used to tell adult stories with emotion and impact.

Don Steinberg

With the school holidays either looming or underway across the country, these are the film reviews you need to read.

Writer Gerald Murnane has always run his own race, but at 76 he has decided it’s time to broadcast it.

Australia’s literary landscape has witnessed a Nobel drought since Patrick White in 1973. Could it break this year?

A PAIR OF RAGGED CLAWS: STEPHEN ROMEI

Writers have managed to wrangle masterpieces from hedonism — Salman Rushdie is not one of them.

Ed Wright

Could it be that modern finance theory and regulation are in fact a dismal science ruled by lunacy and mumbo-jumbo?

Frank Carrigan

The former senator relishes an opportunity to look back and tell some tales, but their relevance is questionable.

Derek Parker

Australia’s favourite koala, Blinky Bill, is 80 but his latest incarnation sees him very much full of life.

michael bodey

Jeff Nunokawa’s year-long social media experiment is like looking at a single subject through a three-part mirror.