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World Without End topped bestseller lists but was criticised for embracing nuclear power

Writer Donald Horne was an astute generaliser in a golden era of them. Can we still examine Australia with his boldness?

Many years ago I was a theatre critic, and over the years I’ve seen and written about plays of all sorts, from the powerful and provocative to the bland and banal. But I’ve never experienced the strange, eerie, even disturbing emotions that occurred recently when hearing my own name repeated…

Rare depiction of love between two elderly black men stirs emotions and realisations among its audience

To much media fanfare and growing public anticipation, the Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals (1988) begins on October 18. Cooper’s novel, first published in 1988, is a key “bonkbuster” text – a largely forgotten genre of women’s writing from the 1980s.

Vance made the high demands for an appearance at a Midwestern public university four years before he was elected to the Senate

With his distinctive narration, the author-actor brings warmth and humour to his retelling of Homer’s epic, the last in his Greek myth series

The Drowned by John Banville; The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins; Midnight and Blue by Ian Rankin; A Case of Matricide by Graeme Macrae Burnet; The Burning Stones by Antti Tuomainen

Actor said new memoir tells ‘deeply personal story that’s lived inside me for many years’