In a stylishly decorated house, in the semi-rural remove of Melbourne’s outskirts, chaos is about to unfold. Because Caroline has just found out that her husband, Henry, has been having an affair, and he isn’t planning on sticking around.

No parent should experience the loss of a child. And yet, life isn’t always that kind. But if the worst happens, when that loss occurs… how do you manage it? How do you even accept it? David and Vera live an idyllic life in the Blue Mountains; a life o...

As the days begin to get a little cooler and the nights a little longer, it’s the perfect time to curl up with a good book. Or to bask in the warm glow of your favourite author. The Sydney Writers Festival is back,

The story of China during the 20th Century is almost impossible to fathom. Marked, not just by change, but by multiple instances of complete social upheaval. During the Great Leap Forward, more than 40 million Chinese people perished: from work,

What we do, what we remember, can define who we are. In a retirement home in the UK, Anne is slowly losing her memory, and the story of her younger life is largely unknown by her family. In Afghanistan, her grandson Luke struggles with the fatigue of c...

How much does your world change when the shape of your family shifts? What about your view of the world? The Seven Good Years, the new work by Etgar Keret is bookended by two major upheavals – the birth of his son, and the death of his father.

Are Generation Y lazy? Are we special flowers, built up to expect too much from parents and a system that awards us for just showing up? Or are boomers clinging to status and wealth – purposefully locking out the younger generation from their place on ...

An increase to the GST, income tax devolved to the states, an end to negative gearing, a cut to company taxes. The last few months have been an exciting time for big thought bubbles on economic reform, but few of them,

Fiona Wood is a former scriptwriter and the author of award-winning novels for young adults: Wildlife and Six Impossible Things. Her latest, Cloudwish, is the story of a Melbourne student Van Uoc.  The daughter of refugees, and a complete pragmatist,

Crow flits throughout the myths we tell ourselves– trickster spirit, harbinger of death, companion to gods, holder of secrets; he will turn up whether we expect him or not. A man, an academic, an analyst of the work of Ted Hughes, has lost his wife.