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In memoirs by authors from Philip Roth to Michael Frayn, the Dad-Lit genre is always a little oedipal but there is also room for warmer feelings

The Unfolding Kafka Festival returns next month with one-of-a-kind artists who will share their intimate experiences that may be surreal and absurd, yet touch on the humane.

EAST Kilbride, 1974: I’m 12 and I buy 10cc’s Sheet Music then bug my old man for hours about the lyrics. Dad, what’s a palooka? What does…

In his new play, the screenwriter and author investigates ideas of individualism, sexual freedom and mortality through a woman who recreates herself as a cyborg

With all my aspirations for “living my best life” in 2022, I hadn’t envisaged I would find myself caught up in what is essentially benefit fraud. But hey, life’s full of surprises.

Robert Manson’s flawed but intriguing movie makes odd observations on a shifting black-and-white world

One in six of us didn’t get nearly enough – like Kafka and Kipling, among others. By Chris Hall

On an extraordinary Māori writer sometimes in Mangakino, translated into Bahasa, Mandarin, Italian, French, Spanish and Romanian.

The daughter of the celebrated artist is suing the New York courts over claims that he is being mistreated in a case that could affect the entire system

For more than a year, Sean Russell has suffered from a constant ringing in his ears. At first it affected all areas of his life – now he’s coming to terms with the condition

I woke up on Friday morning a pawn in a Kafka-esque story. Except I hadn’t been transformed into a chess piece but was a diplomatic pawn, a small player in a much larger international story. I read the news that I and 119 other “prominent” Australians were banned from travelling…