The dramatic advances in emergency medical care since the introduction, in the late 1950s, of modern approaches to ...

Geoff Dyer is known for his stylish sentences and diverse subject matter. He has written fiction, nonfiction and essays. He’s ...

Paul meets Rosa in a movie theatre in New York City. He puts his hand on her thigh in the dark, so she reacts by grabbing it, whacking him on the wrist, pouring her drink into his lap and telling him ...

Natalie Lawrence believes in monsters. In her latest book, Enchanted Creatures, she contends that “they are not imaginary: their forms are fanciful, but what they are is very real”. While she admits ...

What a peculiar book this is. Peter York, best known for his cod-anthropological examin­ation of British society’s various snobby tribes, The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982), has turned his ...

Long considered to be one of Australia’s greatest writers, Helen Garner is routinely praised for her fearlessness and honesty. And certainly her career “sounds pretty badass” when taken in the round, ...

A Jamaican poet and Oxford-educated academic who lives in Leeds and teaches in Manchester, Jason Allen-Paisant won, in 2023, the T. S. Eliot and Forward prizes for Self-Portrait as Othello – a ...

Performance – not just to our colleagues and peers, but also to our families, friends, lovers and even to ourselves – has been an enduring preoccupation for Katie Kitamura, and it comes sharply into ...

678pp. Miegunyah Press. A$120. Edited by Patrick McCaughey, with John Timlin Fred Williams is one of a handful of Australian twentieth-century artists who are broadly known within their own country ...

“Do you know who I am?” This question, when spoken to doormen, waiters, maîtres d’, airline staff, traffic wardens, police officers, receptionists, girls with clipboards at the entrance to social ...

The Kama Sutra, legend has it, was once much longer. In its earliest form it had 100,000 chapters, authored by none other than the supreme god Brahma, but it was reduced to 1,000 chapters; this ...

In Cristina Rivera Garza’s Death Takes Me, reviewed by Lucy Popescu (In Brief, April 18), a character points out that “in Spanish, the word victim, or victima, is always feminine”. This is evidently ...