Why is Australia incarcerating more people now than ever before? Violent crime rates have been almost universally trending down for the last few decades, so why has the percentage of people in gaol almost doubled since the 1980s? -

How much do you know about the generations that came before you? That combined to create you? You probably know your parents, and maybe your grandparents, but how many stories do you have about your great-great-great grandparents? All 32 of them.

It’s a familiar expanse for any Australian on the East Coast – the Pacific Ocean, rolling away into the distance. A scene for family picnics, beach cricket, surfing, or scuba-diving. But what we see is an almost unimaginably small part of the whole.

More than a million people were murdered in Latin America and the Caribbean over the first decade of the new millennium – victims of an ongoing conflict caused by the drug trade. Every so often, we hear about it on our news bulletins - either the viole...

Referencing Borges and Whitehouse with equal authority, jumping nimbly from strange pornography to literary criticism, Rob Doyle’s new book, this is the ritual, is a fresh and exciting collection of stories. -

The use of a placebo is a standard part of medical trials these days. One group receives the drug or treatment being tested, and the other group receives a placebo – a fake pill filled with sugar water or something like that.

Do you know a restrictive clause from a non-restrictive one, a nominative pronoun from an accusative? Which words should be capitalised in a title? And are you sure that every last one of those commas is in exactly the right place? -

In 2004, Rebecca Ryle was murdered, her body left on the grounds of a primary school in the outer suburbs of Perth. The details of the murder didn’t hold a lot of mystery. The who. The how. The where and the when were all wrapped up very quickly.

At the same time a retired mercenary, Sonja Kurtz, is in Vietnam – on a secret mission of revenge – her daughter Emma, an aspiring archaeologist, is in Namibia working on a dig. But when Emma and her team discover a much more recent find than they expe...

A is for Arsenic, B is for Belladonna, C is for Cyanide… - Agatha Christie killed more people with poison than even the worst serial killers, but she kept it safely between the covers – doling out punishment to fiendish murderers as her clever detecti...