A huge statue of a horse stands on the shore, waves lapping around it. By rights it should be a towering figure, reared up on its hind legs, but it is half buried in sand, seemingly abandoned to the ...

Elon Musk doesn’t just mark these times, he has helped to make them. The world’s richest person, the recent architect of the largest share float in history, he has worked against the grain of accepted ...

Barry Jones, a Hawke government science minister, published Sleepers Wake!, his book about the social and economic impacts of ...

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Financial Times reporter Sarah O’Connor confesses to having once been a techno-optimist, confident in technology’s power to automate away dangerous, dirty and boring work. Her new book, We Are Not ...

She was a novelist and journalist, a member of the Algonquin Roundtable, a pal of Hemingway’s, and for half a century the New Yorker’s Paris correspondent. In the latter guise, she moulded the ...

The closing submissions of counsel assisting any judicial inquiry or royal commission often give a clue to the eventual findings, and so it has been with the NSW Supreme Court’s inquiry into the ...

The noisy, all-around-us, ceaselessly moving media environment we inhabit today prevents us from remembering how things once were. It would be easy, for example, to think that no one has shot ...

When the International Booker Prize committee awarded this year’s prize to Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue it continued a laudable tradition of diversity. In the eleven years since its relaunch in ...

The partnership of Alfred Hitchcock and that most Hitchcockian of composers, Bernard Herrmann, is notable for so many things that it’s easy to miss how they worked together to manipulate our ...

“Throughout the decade my mother had spent in and out of custody for a suite of dishonesty offences, she had maintained her innocence. It was a cliché to which I was oblivious. Even once I entered law ...