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What do Swift and Plath have in common, and should Kamala Harris have spoken out about her political ambitions? The Argonauts author turns her lens on poetry, pop and patriarchy

The cult author’s autofictional follow-up to No One Is Talking About This is the story of a breakdown

While they saddle up for a tilt at the Iron Throne in season two of House of the Dragon, the non-binary actor is gently slaying a few other beasts along the way. Joanna Taylor meets them as they take to the London stage

Vibrant essays from the author of The Argonauts touch on art, inspiration, and many of the central dilemmas of our times

When my 25-year marriage broke down in 2017, I did what I always do in my life, especially in times of crisis. I turned to books. Specifically, to books by women.

In 2015, I received a note: I am writing to pass on a couple pages of writing from a friend of mine who was murdered in the Yukon in 1992

I wanted to start this piece with the Laurie Anderson quote, “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture”, but it turns out that Laurie never said it. And the adage has been through so many versions and origin stories that the harder I think on it, the more my…

Life, relationships and art are filtered through sound in 16 essays by brilliant women

Most readers of Helen Garner will be able to pinpoint a first personal encounter with her work: a book, or even a sentence, that cut through like sharp light; a local landmark suddenly immortalised on the page; an unsayable bodily experience transformed into the unabashedly said.