literature

Musician and poet Patti Smith: ‘always evolving’. Dan Himbrechts/AAPAgeist thought patterns and reactions are so embedded in Australian culture that even educated people, people who otherwise...

Why don’t chimpanzees rule the world? Is storytelling - the mysterious glue that enables millions of humans to cooperate effectively - the answer? ShutterstockWriters can’t...

 Image: FlickrLike several classics penned during the golden age of children’s literature, The Wind in the Willows was written with a particular child in mind.Alastair Grahame...

National Film & Sound Archive Growing up in Australia in the 1970s, I much preferred the hijinks of Han Solo and Chewie to Princess Leia’s sexualised...

Winter is coming and with it rain, wind, icy days and the early dusk. Finally, an opportunity to move slower, reflect, rest, sleep, and...

Potato Jack often left home without his jacket on. His mum warned him he’d catch his death, but she was wrong. Just like she...

It started out like a normal day for the man of the house. He had breakfast with his wife. She was no warmer or...

Who is Jesus Christ? The facts are he was born Yeshua ben Yosef – a simple man from a simple town. Born at a...

The heavy decrepit bodies of the great and not so, mingled with their offsprings, children too young to realise that this too would be...

He aged within the silences of our stilted conversation. His eyes were those of a man who’d seen his kingdoms fall and the survival...