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We now live in a world where corporations have a massive amount of data on anyone who has used a …

A legal approach to the decline and fall of the United States

When COVID-19 was beginning it spread throughout the United States, President Donald Trump turned his ire on the World Health …

Why would anyone – whatever gender – choose to wear unwalkable-stiletto-heeled shoes when at work, as a journalist, conducting an …

Crime novels are the most borrowed books in libraries. Ingenious plotting attracts readers and so too, it seems, does violence. …

As a newspaper reporter Karina Barrymore wrote a lot, but writing a novel was not really on her radar. That …

This is the formula for a rock and roll memoir or biography: Start with the iconic moment – the day …

Even before the pandemic, Colum McCann’s Apeirogon seemed so right for these times, so responsive to the globalised nature of …

There have been several “versions” written of the role one of Australia’s most notorious criminals Robert ‘Bertie’ Kidd played in …

The writing talent alone of the Mankiewicz Brothers – Herman and Joseph – is overwhelming. Younger brother Joseph won academy …

Daring. Truthful. But fictional. Does that discount the courage and honesty of writing? And is it less believable? Rachel Cusk …