Ghoulishness, depravity and stupidity: welcome to the world of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona

Image: The Triumph of Death - Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1592). Public domain Whether taken as a good or bad quality, Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona is a confounding novel....

Not like udder milk: ‘synthetic milk’ made without cows may be coming to supermarket shelves near you

Image: Shutterstock The global dairy industry is changing. Among the disruptions is competition from food alternatives not produced using animals – including potential challenges posed...

Belvoir’s Tell Me I’m Here looks at the impact of mental illness on the whole family. It is a wrenching and beautiful work

Image: Brett Boardman/Belvoir Review: Tell Me I’m Here, directed by Leticia Cáceres, Belvoir. Released in 1991, the memoir Tell Me I’m Here remains a landmark examination of the...

Sacred Aboriginal sites are yet again at risk in the Pilbara. But tourism can help protect Australia’s rich cultural heritage

Image: Traditional Owner and co-author Clinton Walker. City of Karratha An application from Traditional Owners to block the construction of a fertiliser plant near ancient rock...

What is oral cancer, the condition John Farnham is being treated for?

Image: Dean Lewins/AAP Seventy three-year-old Australian music icon John Farnham is in a stable condition in intensive care after undergoing surgery to remove an oral...

Former High Court judge Virginia Bell to investigate Morrison’s secret ministries

Image: Flavio Brancaleone/AAP The government has appointed former High Court judge Virginia Bell to inquire into former Prime Minister Scott Morrison having himself secretly appointed...

Plunger, espresso, filter? Just because your coffee is bitter, doesn’t mean it’s ‘stronger’

Image: Devin Avery/Unsplash Coffee – one bean with many possibilities. A big choice is how to brew it: espresso, filter, plunger, percolator, instant and more....

Sunday essay: ‘I feel my heart breaking today’ – a climate scientist’s path through grief towards hope

Image: Joelle Gergis pictured in 2020 following the Black Summer bushfires. Photo: ANU Media I have spent hundreds of hours trawling through countless UN reports and...

Grattan on Saturday: Can Albanese government wring consensus from union-business impasse over industrial relations?

Image: Mick Tsikas/AAP The escalating cost of living is your ally when you’re an opposition seeking election, but when you’re in office, it’s a rampaging...

It’ll be impossible to replace fossil fuels with renewables by 2050, unless we cut our energy consumption

Image: Shutterstock Energy consumption – whether its heating your home, driving, oil refining or liquefying natural gas – is responsible for around 82% of Australia’s greenhouse...
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