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Melbourne man Ander Louis has translated hundreds of pages of the 19th century classic line by line to include Ford Falcons, wankers and drongos

Do you know how the famous painter Vincent Van Gogh looked when he was young?

Do you know how the famous painter Vincent Van Gogh looked when he was young?

In a year filled with centenaries of famous novels, including Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Franz Kafka’s The Trial, another novel also quietly turns 100. William was published in 1925 by the once-celebrated, now largely forgotten, E.H. Young.

United24 has launched a campaign to stop Ukrainian ally nations from enjoying Russian culture, from its classical literature to theatre and cinema.

In the forests of eastern Australia, satin bowerbirds create structures known as “bowers.”

If you run with the pack, you need not bark but wag your tail you must. Russian proverb. For 23 years, I was literary editor, and later also film critic, of the London Evening Standard. A dreamy job — getting paid well to read books and watch movies and then…

“There is no time for imagination, religious or otherwise. We need to act now!” an irritated scientist told me during a workshop on climate change and religion in 2024. Contrary to the tone of his comment, this scientist was not dismissing religion as being marginal to tackling climate change, but…

That’s the way to fulfil your goals and have fun in life, writes Simon May

Why did the professor get divorced, remarry, but allow her former husband to remain in the house? In her brilliant new book, Open Socrates, she makes the case for an intellectually honest life

In one study, nearly half of participants left alone for 15 minutes with no stimulation chose to have an electric shock