Friday essay: I was enthralled by Crime and Punishment at 14. Rereading it after 60 years, I’m still awed
Sonya makes the only reply possible: “But that louse was a human being!” It was nearly…
Wealthy, whiny and wildly tone deaf: Elizabeth Gilbert’s new memoir exemplifies ‘priv-lit’
Could I maybe give you some kind of grant? Can I write you a check? How…
Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the destructiveness of war and the hope that lies in fiction
But what is also dramatised to great effect in Desolation is the degree to which war…
AI free from bias and ideology is a fantasy – humans can’t organise data without distorting reality
In July, the United States government made it clear that artificial intelligence (AI) companies wanting to…
Rewatching Picnic at Hanging Rock at 50: an unsettling portrayal of place, silence and disappearance
Picnic at Hanging Rock remains powerful today, especially in light of ongoing discussions about Indigenous sovereignty…
AI will soon be able to audit all published research – what will that mean for public trust in science?
Self-correction is fundamental to science. One of its most important forms is peer review, when anonymous…
New study peers beneath the skin of iconic lizards to find ‘chainmail’ bone plates – and lots of them
Monitor lizards, also known in Australia as goannas, are some of the most iconic reptiles on…
Medieval preacher invoked chivalric hero as a meme in sermon
It’s the translation of the word “elves” that is central to their new analysis. Based on…