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Leonard Sandiford said he remembered being hit in the neck or back and waking up in hospital about two months later.

It promises to be a marvellous year ahead for OzLit, with new books from the likes of Kate Grenville, Siang Lu, Antoinette Lattouf, Shaun Micallef, Judith Lucy and more

This is a witty takedown of insufferable millennial New Yorkers who have managed to ruin even sex

A faultless lyric from 1887 mourns what seems to be repressed gay love

France's main Braille publisher is in financial crisis after a bold decision to sell its embossed books for the same price as standard ones. Its future raises the broader question of whether printed Braille still matters in the digital age – as its staff and visually impaired volunteers believe it…

Joseph on sussing the school system at the age of four, an awkward audition for the National Youth Theatre, and why he loves his ‘horrible’ Peep Show character

I've been yearning for this!

Ready to make 2026 your best year yet? Then ask yourself the same six questions Mel Robbins has been for the last 22 years.

Yes, it’s messy, derivative and occasionally incomprehensible – but so is life, says comedian Urooj Ashfaq

These are the kind of movies that'll get me to put my book down.

The Bonfire Party by Sean O’Brien; Plastic by Matthew Rice; Retablo for a Door by Michelle Penn; Jonah and Me by John F Deane; Intimate Architecture by Tess Jolly