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In the age of the Anthropocene, humanity appears poised to destroy itself.

Did turf cause his injury? Did his calf strain make him vulnerable? Was it a fluke? Could the Jets have seen this coming—and therefore taken preventative steps? Is there any way to predict tears?

Following her acclaimed translation of the Odyssey, Wilson has turned to Homer’s other, darker poem. She explains how she got stuck for six months – and why it speaks to today’s era of conflict

Red, White and Royal Blue is one of the great LGBTQ+ books that I have read, and here are some others.

The latest instalment in the novelist’s series based around his idiosyncratic character John Cromer is a marvel of care and attention to language

BookTok is obsessed, and so are we.

Powerhouse prop Taniela Tupou is training the house down and on target for a return from a torn Achilles tendon in Australia's Rugby Championship opener.

The 950 million volts fried Amber Escudero-Kontostathis’s nerves, melted her skin and stopped her heart. But the lone survivor tells herself, ‘I’m the lucky one’, writes William Wan

As a father of three and the husband of an amazing woman, I know that one day a year is far too little to recognize everything mothers do. But my work as a scholar of ancient Greek literature has shown me how much harder it was to be a mother…

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Celebrations are a joyous time of reuniting with family and friends. But afterward, people can sometimes be left uneasily mulling over their relationships. Annual returns home can induce an uncomfortable nostalgia in the tension between how the past is remembered and how the present is experienced.