Rachel Perkins is a director, writer and founder of Blackfella Films. She leads a foundation that is recording languages and songlines through the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Patrick McCaughey is a former director of the National Gallery of Victoria and has published widely on Australian art.

Kim Mahood is the author of Craft for a Dry Lake, Position Doubtful and the essay ‘Kartiya Are Like Toyotas: White Workers on Australia’s Cultural Frontier’.

On learning that the police officer who killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, had been exonerated, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ son went to his room and wept. Coates would not ...

The nameless teen narrator of Exploded View (Text Publishing; $29.99) may have never read a line of Larkin, but she shares with the poet a cruel knowledge of life: first boredom, then fear. Killing ...

Luke Goodsell is a critic and editor who has contributed to the ABC, SBS and the Melbourne International Film Festival.

Believe the hype about the Tasmanian comedian’s Netflix special By now, someone in your life has urged you to watch Nanette, the Netflix special from Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby. They would have ...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel is an engaging story of love and literary misadventure ‘Less’ (Abacus; $19.99), the novel that won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is the story of Arthur Less ...

History and suffering matter in the latest instalment of the American author’s Gilead novels Marilynne Robinson’s first fiction, the celebrated Housekeeping, was, she says, a series of metaphors ...

Reading Louis Nowra’s article ‘The Better Self?’ (March), I do wish he had managed to make himself a “better self” over the 40 years since The Female Eunuch was published. Germaine is a scholar and a ...

Olivier Assayas revisits his 1996 film in a delicious palindromic limited series, in which a frazzled director remakes his ‘Irma Vep’ film into a TV series New viewers need not know the backstory. Via ...

With stripped-down eloquence, the Australian novelist delivers a raging memoir about her rape as a teenager Kathryn Heyman is a successful writer, novelist, scriptwriter, teacher. She speaks with ...