He would go on to write The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, two of...
Books
When was the last time you stopped to say thank you to a tree? Perhaps it’s something we...
Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler (W&N, £20)The new from the award-winning author imagines a...
Interrogating your privilege can be a divisive, somewhat uncomfortable endeavour – but the way it underpins everyday...
Bestselling crime writer James Patterson and investigative journalist Vicky Ward are writing a book on the killing...
How influential is a name? This is the question underpinning The Names, which opens with Cora taking...
Some years ago, a colleague on the Irish Times took the columnist Nuala O’Faolain to lunch. Nuala was famous,...
The story of human evolution has undergone a distinct feminisation in recent decades. Or, rather, an equalisation: a...
My friend John Hall, who has died aged 80, was a senior lecturer and later vice-principal at...
Hawke PM: The Making of a Legend by David Day Biography, HarperCollins, $49.99 Part two of David...
Burglar Bill ‘I worked with kids who struggled – this one boy would listen with rapture’ Thirty...
Everything is in decline, argues the geographer Samuel Miller McDonald. Democracy and free speech are in freefall....
As TonyInterruptor begins, musician Sasha Keyes is in the middle of an improvised trumpet solo. A man...
Sea-Fever I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,And all I...
Samuel Pepys’s diary, which covers 1660 to 1669, is regarded as one of the great classic texts...
“Virgil and Homer would recognise these hulking airborne men,” Helen Garner wrote of AFL players in her...
When The Salt Path came out in 2018, it was a publishing phenomenon, going on to sell...
Allan Ahlberg, the children’s writer famous for popular children’s books such as Each Peach Pear Plum and...
Passion by David Morley (Carcanet, £12.99)David Morley’s ardent, vividly alive latest collection draws on his Romany background...
My earliest reading memory I have a distinct memory of sitting by the bookshelves in the first house we...
