Charles Spencer’s book is as much about him as about the sister he claims to speak for. Beneath the score-settling, it’s a story of a brother still grieving.
- Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
Periodic Bitch tells what it’s like to live with PMDD: an extreme, chronically understudied and widely misunderstood form of premenstrual illness.
What does the wealth of books, documentaries and dramas about the Chernobyl disaster tell us that history alone cannot?
Former child star Jennette McCurdy’s gross, gripping debut novel shows there is no single, correct way to engage with stories about female desire and power.
In her Netflix series, Vladimir, Julia May Jonas attempts to tame the slippery characters and weighty themes in her novel. That’s a pity.
Summer reading can mean anything you want it to – from a crime or romance novel to a fat classic you didn’t have time for during the year. What will you read?
Former journalist Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto, about her ‘digital affair’ with politician RFK Jr, raises all kinds of ethical questions. Oh, and it’s a hot mess.
For five decades, the image was attributed to Associate Press photographer Nick Út. But a documentary recently released on Netflix is challenging this.
Nobody’s Girl is Virginia Giuffre’s inside account of the two years she spent as a ‘sex slave’ working for Jeffrey Epstein and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
As the air begins to warm and the days stretch, the screens get darker — with crime, mystery and noir creeping in.
In Elizabeth Gilbert’s shocking new confessional memoir, she falls in love with her dying best friend, enables her addiction – and once again blows up her own life.
The first Erin Patterson documentary, Stan’s three-part documentary Revealed: Death Cap Murders, depicts Patterson as a loner who craved community.
Merlynn Tong’s new play feels like it’s not sure if it’s a meditation on loss, or a musical comedy about reinvention.
The Male Complaint argues it’s unhelpful to blame toxic masculinity for digital misogyny. We should try to understand the manosophere – even if we disagree with it.
Unlike cold case investigations, real-time true crime pods unpack the complex issues of a case while it’s still under judgement.
This year, why not celebrate with films that capture the beauty and chaos of motherhood.
This week, it will be 30 years since the Oklahoma bombing. Now, it’s back on the cultural agenda, as the right-wing extremism that drove McVeigh is on the rise.
With so many options across multiple streaming platforms, choosing your next show can feel overwhelming. Let our experts help you decide.
At the centre of the new Netflix show is a devastating truth: the most dangerous place in the world for a teenager is alone in their bedroom.
In 1987, researchers lamented how schools were organised ‘around the assumption that the nuclear family is the norm’. New research suggests very little has changed.
In Groomed, Sonia Orchard reappraises the social and cultural factors that allow sexual exploitation to persist.
Why are Beatrice Sparks’ alarmist books for young adults, which are novels presented as diaries, still described by publishers and booksellers as ‘real’ stories?
The Netflix thriller managed to shatters the voyeuristic male gaze that pervades the true crime genre.
We surveyed 140 separated Australian parents about their experiences dealing with their child’s school.
In her new memoir Hope, Rosie Batty reflects on her ‘absolute despair’ at our failure to protect women and children from gendered violence – and the personal toll of becoming an unlikely campaigner.
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