New short fiction about a life changed by an incident on a remote property outside Sydney, where the city’s youth come to drink and shoot guns When I heard the first shot I was alone in the cottage ...

Netflix’s Italian period drama is glorious with intense performances and visual detail, but the latest season of Binge’s hit satire of privilege and psychopaths falls flat You might feel that our ...

The latest school bullying furore suggests eradicating such behaviour may be beyond us A friend who lives in my home town messaged me a screenshot of a news report. It was about a child being ...

The Irish author returns to the setting of his acclaimed novel ‘This Is Happiness’, for an exalted mystery of a baby abandoned at Christmas Here is the opening line of Niall Williams’ new novel: “This ...

Mike Leigh’s latest domestic drama is brutal and caustically funny, while two films about cats offer insights into how we live We’ve all met a Pansy. Constantly embattled, she’s the kind of person who ...

The Nigerian American’s latest novel includes a Strauss-Kahn–type assault, in a story that risks being more worthy than insightful I wonder what they might think of Dream Count, (4th Estate) the ...

There was a time when the leaders of Australia’s Labor and Liberal parties refused to entertain the question of minority government, and no one seemed to mind. It was just about the final taboo in our ...

0 ENTRIES is the chief political correspondent at the Australia Institute.

Senior reporter for The Saturday Paper Rick Morton on why Australian research needs a new backer – and what the government should be doing about it. In recent weeks, Australian researchers began ...

Special correspondent for The Saturday Paper Jason Koutsoukis traces the battlelines of the upcoming election and tells us which leader is most ready for the fight ahead. In his press conference ...

Reacquainting with Perth after years away, the author embarks on a search for literal signs of change ...