Should a river have the right to sue? In Is a River Alive?, Robert Macfarlane explores the global movement to grant legal ...

Where violence often begins with words, the link between thought, speech and action demands closer attention. As global ...

In an era starved of thoughtful, live public debate, Q&A offered a rare, demotic platform where ideology met interrogation, ...

Australians have watched the papal election, but now attention must return home. With multiple dioceses in transition and ...

Israel’s strikes on Iran have been framed as necessary defence — but what happens when pre-emption becomes policy, not ...

A decade after Donald Trump launched his improbable bid for the presidency, America finds itself deeper in conflict and ...

Eureka Street offers an alternative. It's less a magazine than a wide ranging conversation about the issues that matter in ...

Bloomsday. It's characteristic of James Joyce, the greatest writer in English of his generation, that he should have turned the day when Ulysses is set, June the 16th into a kind of secular religious ...

A friend my own age and with a quirky sense of humour once said to me: ‘You know we’re not going to get out of this alive, don’t you?’ I remember laughing ruefully and remembering Benjamin Franklin, ...

Modern medicine’s astonishing ability to preserve life has nudged the possibility of death and the process of dying ever further from our consciousness. The past year or so has been a confronting one ...

It was Virginia Woolf who said sweepingly that ‘on or around December 1910, human character changed’. Well, it’s now a century since some of the most resounding books of the 20th century were ...