If the US vice-presidential debate was refreshingly civil, the candidates avoided much discussion of domestic and ...

Henry James is reputed to have said that when you tell a dream, you lose a reader. I’ve never been convinced of that view. But then, I grew up on the vision stories of the Old Testament: Jacob ...

Israel correspondent for The Economist Anshel Pfeffer on where the Middle East is headed, and how, or if, the fighting can end. One year on from the October 7 attacks against Israel, the region is ...

Melanie Cheng’s newest novel, The Burrow, stole an evening of my life. I was already a fan of her first two books – short story collection Australia Day and her first novel, Room for a Stranger. She’s ...

Special correspondent for The Saturday Paper Jason Koutsoukis, on why the national strategy on counterterrorism has collapsed – and what it means for our safety. There’s a greater than 50 per cent ...

ABC journalist and host of the Global Roaming podcast Geraldine Doogue, on how the two candidates are using their roots to appeal to voters in very different ways. As much as they would hate to admit ...

Middle East correspondent for The Economist Gregg Carlstrom on Hassan Nasrallah’s legacy and what his death means for Lebanon, and for Israel. The leader of Hezbollah has been killed in an Israeli ...

When Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in Beirut over the weekend, Michelle Jasmin Dimasi felt the blast from her apartment. Michelle’s an Australian journalist and she’s been based in ...

Economist and contributor to The Saturday Paper Peter Martin, on the “illusory” discounts and how a Cadbury Caramello Koala helped fuel the outrage. There are hundreds of angry posts on X, TikTok and ...

The French author’s fragmentary novel employs the horror genre to explore anxieties about intimacy, celebrity and our infatuation with life on screens How the memory of parental advice sparked the ...

Michael sits down with writer Rumaan Alam for a conversation about his latest novel, Entitlement, and they discuss class, desire, and the influence of Sylvia Plath. Malcolm Knox began his career as a ...