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Thursday 10 September 2026
190,000-year-old cave reveals how ancient human species lived and adapted
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UOW backs NSW investment in innovation and research commercialisation
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Arts and Culture
How do you satirise a self‑satirising society? Jordan Prosser gives it a go
In Blue Giant, a reality TV trip-to-Mars novel, Jordan Prosser proves he's a dazzlingly brilliant wordsmith – but is he too clever by half?
Arts and Culture
Ryan Murphy’s new thriller The Shards takes place in 1981 – but it’s about the present
Bret Easton Ellis' books seem perfect for the screen, but there's an art to translating books like The Shards and American Psycho. Which adaptations worked – or didn't?
Arts and Culture
Lyric essays are an antitoxin for a poisoned world
These vibrant, provocative books come together in their contemplation of what it means to be Australian in a global context.
Arts and Culture
Kathryn Heyman’s novel about dying and difficult families resists easy consolations
Conversations about death emphasise choice, control or dignity. Circle of Wonders offers a quiet corrective, insisting that dying is relational.
Arts and Culture
A wild girl considers land rights and community in Eva Hornung’s new novel
Ambitious in scope and its depictions of time, The Minstrels is "utterly gripping"
Arts and Culture
Brontë’s Heathcliff wasn’t white. Jacob Elordi is. Is that a problem?
Few casting choices this year have divided audiences like Jacob Elordi as Fennel’s Heathcliff