Old Babes in the Wood is marked by shocking flashes and jolts of horrifying imagery that point to the brutality of a darker truth.
There are new releases from Margaret Atwood,Sebastian Barry and Eleanor Catton,a biography of Tanya Plibersek and a 650-page whopper about our changing world.
Yvonne Strahovski is one of the best things about the dystopian TV hit – so good that most viewers have no idea she’s Australian,the daughter of Polish immigrants who know a thing or two about barbaric regimes.
Based on the book,the series portrays a dystopian future oppressive to women,and the growing resistance movement.
His parents took him to a psychologist because he wanted to be an artist. Now the Australian artist has painted the Queen and a host of other luminaries.
Old directories reveal that Judge Amy Coney Barrett,Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court,served as a'handmaid'in a Christian group that believes in the supremacy of men.
Part lament and part celebration,the The Top 10 Most Challenged Books is a call to arms for book lovers,but it's also an electrocardiogram of our nation's troubled heart.
Two separate but in many ways similar statements,signed by some of Australia's and the world's most significant cultural leaders and published last week,have intensified the debate about"cancel culture".
They've signed a letter,titled'A Letter on Justice and Open Debate',denouncing the"restriction of debate"in modern culture.
Margaret Atwood and her late partner Graeme Gibson knew they did not have long together when they visited Australia earlier this year.
The finalists of the prestigious art award said,at a time when the world is divided,they wanted"to make a collective statement in the name of commonality,multiplicity and solidarity."